I knew, and she knew that I knew." It seemed as though something in his tone might have grated upon her.
Gently, but with a certain firmness, she drew her hand away from his.
"You were very angry, I suppose ?" she murmured.
Some instinct told him exactly what was passing in her thoughts.

In a moment he was on the defensive.
"I think," he said, "that if it had been any other man--but listen.

The photograph which I took from the mantelpiece and threw into the fire was the photograph of my own cousin.

His father and my father were brought up together.

My father chose the Church, his founded the factory in which most of the people in Detton Magna were employed.