I hadn't the most distant notion that you were on this side of the equator.

If my husband had mentioned your name I should not have been so taken by surprise.' 'Were you really so surprised?
I thought I MUST have sent my shadow on before me--because I've been thinking so tremendously of you these last few days, and of the prospect of seeing you again.

I daresay you know,' he added, turning politely to McKeith--'that I had the pleasure of meeting your wife when she was Lady Bridget O'Hara, one winter at Rome, with her cousins, Lord and Lady Gaverick.

And later, we saw something of each other in London.' 'No, my husband doesn't know,' Bridget gave a reckless laugh, and her eyes challenged those of McKeith before he could answer.

'You see, Colin and I, when we married, came from opposite poles geographically, morally and mentally.