"He went out and left us a quarter of an hour since.

Did you meet Colonel Osborne ?" "I was speaking to him in the street not a moment since." As he answered he could see that Nora was making some sign to her sister.
Nora was most anxious that Emily should not speak of what had just occurred, but her signs were all thrown away.

"Somebody must tell him," said Mrs.Trevelyan, "and I don't know who can do so better than so old a friend as Mr.Stanbury." "Tell what, and to whom ?" he asked.
"No, no, no," said Nora.
"Then I must tell him myself," said she, "that is all.

As for standing this kind of life, it is out of the question.

I should either destroy myself or go mad." "If I could do any good I should be so happy," said Stanbury.
"Nobody can do any good between a man and his wife," said Nora.
Then Mrs.Trevelyan began to tell her story, putting aside, with an impatient motion of her hands, the efforts which her sister made to stop her.