"I thought it best for your interests as well as for theirs." "Yes, but I fear that I had no right to do it.

My conscience rebukes me." "Does it, really ?--I can't quite see"---- She herself was so agitated that features and voice would hardly obey her will.

She strove to concentrate her attention upon Northway's words, and divine their secret meaning.

His talk continued for awhile in the same strain, but confused, uncertain, rambling.

Mrs.Wade found it impossible to determine what he aimed at; now and then she suspected that he had been drinking.