My profession is not one calculated to render a man's heart over tender, but I must confess that in this case I was by no means as adamant as was usual with me.

As I have said, she was an unusually pretty girl, and had she not been kind enough to express her belief in my powers! After all, detectives, like other people, are only human.
"Your uncle and his companion have promised to call upon me this afternoon," I said, "and when they do so, I think I may promise you that I will endeavour to come to some arrangement with them." "I thank you," she said; "for I think that means that you will try to help them.

If you do, I feel confident that you will succeed.

I hope you will forgive me for having called upon you as I have done, but, when I saw how disappointed they were after their interview with you yesterday, I made up my mind that I would endeavour to see you and to interest you on their behalf before they came again." "You have certainly done so," I answered, as she rose to go.

"If I take the case up, and believe me I am not at all sure that I shall not do so, they will owe it to your intercession." "Oh, no, I did not mean that exactly," she replied, blushing prettily.
"I should like to feel that you did it for the reason that you believe in the justice of their cause, not merely because I tried to persuade you into it.