It cut her face and she felt that the little pain was a relief.

He came and stood beside her with his hands deep in the pockets of his overcoat.
'If you think I'm a brute on account of what I told you about Miss Bamberger,' he said, 'that's not quite fair.

I broke off our engagement because I found out that we were going to make each other miserable and we should have had to divorce in six months; and if half the people who are just going to get married would do the same thing there would be a lot more happy women in the world, not to say men! That's all, and she knew it, poor girl, and was just as glad as I was when the thing was done.

Now what is there so brutal in that, Madame Cordova ?' Margaret turned on him almost fiercely.
'Why do you tell me all this ?' she asked.

'For heaven's sake let poor Miss Bamberger rest in her grave!' 'Since you ask me why,' answered Mr.Van Torp, unmoved,' I tell you all this because I want you to know more about me than you do.