"The only point worth considering is, could I help?
You know in your heart that you could not make me afraid." "I shall take you into my confidence, at any rate," he promised, "and you shall decide afterwards.

I warn you, you will think that I have drunk deep of the Bowery melodrama." "I shall mind nothing," she laughed as she assured him.

"When do we begin ?" Wingate was thoughtful for a moment or two.

They both heard the opening of a heavy door down below, the hailing of a taxi by the butler, and Dredlinton's voice in the street.
"Is that your husband going ?" he enquired.
She nodded.
"Then I am going to make a most singular request," he said.

"I am going to ask you whether you would show me over the portion of the house which you used as a hospital.".