The life you have chosen brings its inevitable consequences." "Chosen!" she repeated, with an indignant face.

"How do you know I had any choice in the matter?
You have no right to speak contemptuously, like that." "Perhaps not.

Certainly not.

I should have said--the life you are evidently leading." "Well, I don't know that it makes so much difference.

I suppose everybody has a choice at all events between life and death, and you mean that I ought to have killed myself rather than come to this.
That's my own business, however, and--" A man had just passed behind them, and, catching the sound of the girl's voice, had turned suddenly to look at her.