I have to address a meeting at Hollingford on the 20th, and I must think out a sufficiency of harmless nonsense." "Really?
A public meeting already?
Couldn't I come and hear you ?" Dyce explained the nature of the gathering.
"But I shall see you before then," he added, helping her to enter the cab.

"By the bye, don't be indiscreet with reference to what we spoke of just now." "Why of course not," answered Iris, her eyes fixed on his face as he drew back carelessly saluting.
Though Lashmar had elaborated his story concerning Lord Dymchurch on the spur of the moment, he now thoroughly believed it himself, and the result was a restlessness of mind which no conviction of its utter absurdity could overcome.

In vain did he remember that Lady Ogram had settled his destiny so far as the matter lay in _her_ hands, and that to displease the choleric old autocrat would be to overthrow in a moment the edifice of hope reared by her aid.

The image of May Tomalin was constantly before his mind.

Not that he felt himself sentimentally drawn to her; but she represented an opportunity which it annoyed him to feel that he would not, if he chose, be permitted to grasp.