She said 'Why not ?' to something which, a few hours earlier, had been inconceivable.

She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto.

When I think of it--when I think of Claire de Cintre and all that she represents, there seems to me something very fine in it.

When I recommended you to try your fortune with her I of course thought well of you, and in spite of your sins I think so still.

But I confess I don't see quite what you are and what you have done, to make such a woman do this sort of thing for you." "Oh, there is something very fine in it!" said Newman with a laugh, repeating her words.