Ah, to advise you for nothing over your purchase of the Crown lands! You have got into some difficulty over that, or something of the kind?
You brought him down here for some special purpose, I am sure; but I did not know him well enough, and I knew you too well, to ask why." "Mary, what has come to you?
I never knew you quite like this before.
I dislike this extraordinary flippancy of tone very much." "I beg your pardon," said Lady Mary; make allowance for me this once.
I learnt ten minutes ago that my boy was going to the war.

I must either laugh or--or cry, and you wouldn't like me to do that; but it's a way women have when their hearts are half broken." "I don't understand you," he said helplessly.
Lady Mary looked at him as though she had awakened, frightened, to the consciousness of her own temerity.
"I don't quite understand myself, I think," she said, in a subdued voice.

"I won't torment you any more, Timothy; I will be as calm and collected--as you wish.

Only let me go." "Will you not listen to my reason for wishing you to remain at home ?" he said sternly.

"It is an important one." "I had forgotten," she said indifferently.