With regard to her question, he declared that in his judgment no human being could answer it.

He thought that upon the whole the balance of probabilities turned in her favor.

Winterborne's apparent strength, during the last months of his life, must have been delusive.

It had often occurred that after a first attack of that insidious disease a person's apparent recovery was a physiological mendacity.
The relief which came to Grace lay almost as much in sharing her knowledge of the particulars with an intelligent mind as in the assurances Fitzpiers gave her.

"Well, then, to put this case before you, and obtain your professional opinion, was chiefly why I consented to come here to-day," said she, when he had reached the aforesaid conclusion.
"For no other reason at all ?" he asked, ruefully.
"It was nearly the whole." They stood and looked over a gate at twenty or thirty starlings feeding in the grass, and he started the talk again by saying, in a low voice, "And yet I love you more than ever I loved you in my life." Grace did not move her eyes from the birds, and folded her delicate lips as if to keep them in subjection.
"It is a different kind of love altogether," said he.