You must never suffer her to come.

You understand that ?" "I understand," Virginia answered.
"And this man Vine, Mr.Norris Vine, have you met him ?" he asked.
Virginia shook her head.
"No!" she said, "I have never seen him since that night at the restaurant." "The same thing," Phineas Duge said, "applies to him.

Neither of them must cross the threshold of this house.

It is a hard thing to say of one's own daughter, but those two are in league against me, if their combination is worth speaking of seriously." Virginia looked hopelessly puzzled.

Phineas Duge hesitated for a moment, and then continued-- "There are phases of our life here," he said, "which you could not hope to understand, even if you had been born in this city.