Supposing it was in your power to help either, and your interests lay with us," he added, speaking with a certain meaning in his tone--"well, to cut it short, how should you feel about it ?" "You mean," she said slowly, "would my filial devotion outweigh--other considerations ?" He looked at her admiringly.
"You are a marvel, Miss Duge," he said.

"That is exactly what I do mean." She leaned back in her chair for a moment, and looked thoughtfully through the little cloud of cigarette smoke into the face of the man opposite to her.
"You have probably heard," she said, "that my father turned me out of his house." "There was a rumour--" he began hesitatingly.
"Oh! it was no rumour," she interrupted.

"He took care that every one knew that I had given Norris Vine some information about his doings in Canadian Pacifies.

If I were back at home, which I never shall be, I would do the same thing again.

I have lived with my father since I came back from Europe, and I know what manner of a man he is.