What Destiny has to do with you and with me, neither you nor I can pretend to know beforehand.
In the presence of that great mystery, humanity must submit to be ignorant.

Wait, Iris--wait!" She answered him with the simplicity of a docile child: "I will do anything you tell me." Mountjoy was too fond of her to say more of Lord Harry, for that day.
He was careful to lead the talk to a topic which might be trusted to provoke no agitating thoughts.

Finding Iris to all appearance established in the doctor's house, he was naturally anxious to know something of the person who must have invited her--the doctor's wife..