I'm damn sure of it!" "You are wrong." "You mean that you are not inclined to stand by me ?" he demanded.
"Yes, I mean that." "You don't intend to help me out ?" "I do not intend to--not this time." He began to show his big teeth, and that nervous snickering "tick" twitched his upper lip.
"How about the courts ?" he sneered.

"Do you want to figure in them with Plank ?" "I don't want to," she said steadily, "but you can not frighten me any more by that threat." "Oh! Can't frighten you! Perhaps you think you'll marry Plank when I get a decree?
Do you?
Well, you won't for several reasons; first, because I'll name other corespondents and that will make Plank sick; second, because Plank wants to marry somebody else and I'm able to assist him.
So where do you come out in the shuffle ?" "I don't know," she said, under her breath, and rested her head against the back of the chair, as though suddenly tired.
"Well, I know.

You'll come out smirched, and you know it," said Mortimer, gazing intently at her.

"Look here, Leila: I didn't come here to threaten you.

I'm no black-mailer; I'm no criminal.