If the occasion arises, you can speak of any matter of business in which we may be interested, before her.

It is necessary," he continued, after a slight pause, "that there should be some one in my household who is above suspicion, I might almost say, above temptation.

My niece will hold that post." Then they all looked at her, and Virginia was a little frightened.

It did not seem to her necessary, however, to say anything.

Two of the men she met for the first time, but all were known to her by sight.