You did me a service, for I had no idea that any one was going to take advantage of my divorce to make a cowardly attack on my friend--I mean Mr.Van Torp.

I shall certainly not make any defence before the Patriarch, but I shall make a statement which will go to the right people, saying that I met Mr.Van Torp in a lawyer's chambers in the Temple, that is, in a place of business, and about a matter of business, and that there was no secret about it, because my husband's servant called the cab that took me there, and gave the cabman the address.

I often do go out without telling any one, and I let myself in with a latch-key when I come home, but on that particular occasion I did neither.

Will you say that if you hear me talked about ?' 'Of course I will.' Nevertheless, Margaret thought that Lady Maud might have given her a little information about the 'matter of business' which had involved such a large sum of money, and had produced such important consequences..