Just now you see everything darkly and hopelessly, but that's because your health has suffered of late." "Perhaps this very night," said Lilian, without looking at her companion, "he will tell people." "He is more likely to succeed in getting money, and then he will keep the threat held over you.

He seems to have come at this moment just because he knows that your fear of him will be keenest now.

That will always be his aim--to appear with his threats just when a disclosure would be hardest to bear.

But I suppose Mr.Quarrier will rather give up everything than submit to this.

Oh, the pity! the pity!" Lilian let her hands fall and sat staring before her.
She felt as though cast out into a terrible solitude.