'If I know little of men, it's certain you don't know much more of women.' He leaned back and laughed.

And whilst he laughed Paula quitted the room.
Paula still kept up her habit of letter-writing.

After breakfast next morning she sat in her pretty boudoir, writing to Annabel.

After sentences referring to Annabel's expected arrival in London for the season, she added this: 'A very shocking story has just come to my ears.

I oughtn't really to repeat it to you, dear, and yet in another way it is my duty to.