"I do not like the look of the house at all.

I do not believe that it will suit me." "At least, now that you are here," he protested, "you will, if you please, go over it.

I should like you to see the ballroom.

The decorations are supposed to be quite exceptional." She hesitated for a moment and then, with a slight shrug of the shoulders, she yielded.

There was a note in his tone not exactly insistent, and yet dominant, a note which she obeyed although secretly she wondered at herself for doing so.