I was foolish enough to tell him frankly just how I am situated, and how important it is for me to be free until April.

He hopes that I shall be so pushed that I will accept one of the women whom he has proposed to me.

With the knife at my throat, I should have to yield." "And these women ?" she asked, not daring to look at him.
"Do not be alarmed, you have nothing to fear.

One is the drunken widow of a butcher, and the other is a young girl who has a baby." "He dares to propose such women to a man like you!" And Saniel repeated all that Caffie had said to him about these two women.
"What a monster he is!" Phillis said.
"While he was telling me these things I thought of what you said--that if some one killed him, it would be no more than he deserved." "That is perfectly true." "Nothing would have been easier than for me to have made away with him.
He had the toothache, and when he showed me his teeth I could easily have strangled him.

We were alone, and a miserable diabetic, such as he is, who has not more than six months to live, I am sure, could not have resisted a grasp like this.