"May I still consider you as one of them?
Will you forgive and forget?
Will you shake hands ?" Mr.Le Frank made another magnificent bow.

He was proud of his voice.

In his most resonant and mellifluous tones, he said, "You do me honour--" and took the offered hand, and lifted it grandly, and touched it with his lips.
She held by the baluster with her free hand, and controlled the sickening sensation which that momentary contact with him produced.
He might have detected the outward signs of the struggle, but for an interruption which preserved her from discovery.

Mrs.Gallilee was standing at the open library door.

Mrs.Gallilee said, "I am waiting for you, Mr.Le Frank." Carmina hurried up the stairs, pursued already by a sense of her own imprudence.