The knife is the only remedy for some forms of disease.

If left to grow and prey upon the body, they gradually suck away its life and destroy it in the end." "If I only knew how to do it," replied Mrs.Dinneford.

"If I could only get her in my power, I'd make short works of her." Her eyes flashed with a cruel light.
"It might be done." "How ?" "Mr.Dinneford knows the chief of police." The light went out of Mrs.Dinneford's eyes: "It can't be done in that way, and you know it as well as I do." Mrs.Dinneford turned upon Mrs.Bray sharply, and with a gleam of suspicion in her face.
"I don't know any other way, unless you go to the chief yourself," replied Mrs.Bray, coolly.

"There is no protection in cases like this except through the law.

Without police interference, you are wholly in this woman's power." Mrs.Dinneford grew very pale.
"It is always dangerous," went on Mrs.Bray, "to have anything to do with people of this class.