Can you deny that you felt out of place at The Three Tuns ?" "I don't know.

Well, since you make me speak, I do not deny it." "And yet I have felt at home there these twenty years.

Your husband used always to take you to the Earl of Wessex, did he not ?" "Yes," she reluctantly admitted.

How could she explain in the street of a market-town that it was her superficial and transitory taste which had been offended, and not her nature or her affection?
Fortunately, or unfortunately, at that moment they saw Melbury's man driving vacantly along the street in search of her, the hour having passed at which he had been told to take her up.

Winterborne hailed him, and she was powerless then to prolong the discourse.