"We could not think of letting you do that, could we, Paul ?" Paul's reply to this humane suggestion was not so prompt as it should have been.

In his heart he felt at that moment that he was as bad as a murderer.

He knew that he was willing this woman should risk not only her health, but even her life, rather than that he should fail to see Ida.

He was striving to repress this feeling, so far at least as to say that he would not insist upon going on with the seance, when Mrs.Legrand, with a glance through her half-shut eyelids, intimating that she perfectly understood his thoughts, said, in a tone which put an end to the discussion, "Excuse me, but I shall certainly give the seance.

I am much obliged for your interest in me; but I am rather notional about keeping my promises, and it is a peculiarity in which my friends have to indulge in.