Your daughter, too, shall know all.

She shall judge you now as she would judge you one day." As he spoke he advanced to her with a manner so cruel that she recoiled.
A few more moments and the man would have carried out his threat.

He was about to strike her, to break objects around him, to call forth a terrible scandal.

She had the presence of mind of an audacity more courageous still.

An electric bell was near at hand.