The secret of the words that she had spoken, was the one secret that she kept from Mr.Le Frank.
"While I was insensible," she proceeded, "my niece was taken away from me.

She has been suffering from nervous illness; she was naturally terrified--and she is now at the nurse's lodgings, too ill to be moved.
There you have the state of affairs, up to last night." "Some people might think," Mr.Le Frank remarked, "that the easiest way out of it, so far, would be to summon the nurse for the assault." "The easiest way compels me to face a public exposure," Mrs.Gallilee answered.

"In my position that is impossible." Mr.Le Frank accepted this view of the case as a matter of course.
"Under the circumstances," he said, "it's not easy to advise you.

How can you make the woman submit to your authority, while you are lying here ?" "My lawyers have made her submit this morning." In the extremity of his surprise, Mr.Le Frank forgot himself.

"The devil they have!" he exclaimed.
"They have forbidden her, in my name," Mrs.Gallilee continued, "to act as nurse to my niece.