Puritanism is out of place west of the Missouri, especially among ladies of your profession.

Oh, come, now, Christie, don't try to put such airs on with me.

I know who you are, all right, and can guess why you are hunting after Fred Willoughby.

I pumped the boy, and got most of the truth out of him." "You--you have seen him, then, since you left me," she faltered, bewildered, "and didn't bring him here with you ?" "Why should I ?" and the man stepped forward, his eyes on her, his hands twitching with a desire to clasp her to him, yet restrained by some undefinable power.

"While I believed your brother story, I could have played the good Samaritan most beautifully, but after I talked with Willoughby I prefer him at a distance." "My brother story! Do you mean to insinuate you doubt his being my brother?
He told you that ?" "He gave up the whole trick.