She said this evening she thought it was time for her to visit our people in Rouen." "Oh, she did! Helene, I must tell you frankly that I heard her reproach you for having broken a promise, and she spoke with deep feeling." It was possible that the Roman profile turned white, but in the dusk of the car he could not be sure.

His wife, however, merely shrugged her shoulders and replied calmly: "My dear Price, if that has worried you, why didn't you say so at once?
I am rather ashamed to tell you, all the same.

Maman has been at me lately to persuade you to let her have the ruby for a week.

She is dreadfully superstitious, poor maman, and is convinced it would bring her some tremendous good fortune--" "I have never met a woman who, I could swear, was freer from superstition--" Price closed his lips angrily.

Of what use to tax her feminine defenses further?
He had known her long enough to be sure she would rather tell the truth than lie.