She curtailed the word "examination" in an off-hand way which smacked of an undergraduate, and her attitude on the chair suggested that she had half a mind to cross her legs and throw her hands behind her head.
"Then," said Quarrier, "you have a good deal more right to speak of woman's claims to independence than most female orators." She looked at him with a good-humoured curl of the lip.
"Excuse me if I mention it--your tone reminds me of that with which you began last evening.

It was rather patronizing." "Heaven forbid! I am very sorry to have been guilty of such ill-manners." "In a measure you atoned for it afterwards.

When I got up to offer you my thanks, I was thinking of the best part of your lecture--that where you spoke of girls being entrapped into monstrous marriages.

That was generous, and splendidly put.

It seemed to me that you must have had cases in mind." For the second time Denzil was unable to meet the steely gaze.