Except the cup of tea that he had taken in the morning, and a glass of wine at midday, he had touched nothing.

Mrs.Cunningham was a woman of great tact, and by making him talk of the steps that he intended to take to hunt down the assassin, kept him from thinking.
"Thank you very much, Mrs.Cunningham," he said, when the dinner was over.

"I feel very much better." "I have brought down my work," she said, "and will sit here while you drink your wine and smoke a pipe.

Millicent has gone to bed, completely worn out, and it will be pleasanter for us both to sit here than to be alone." Mark gladly agreed to the proposal.

She turned the conversation now to India, and talked of her life there.
"I was not out there very long," she said.