Oh, the cunning of those opium-eaters?
However, it will keep him quiet just now, and to Eaton Square I must go." "You had better be quiet now, my dear fellow, after your dose; talking will only excite you.

Settle yourself on my bed, and I'll be back in an hour." So he put Elsley on his bed, carefully removing razors and pistols (for he had still his fears of an outburst of passion), then locked him in, ran down into the Strand, threw himself into a cab for Eaton Square, and asked for Valencia.
Campbell had been there already; so Tom took care to tell nothing which he had not told, expecting, and rightly, that he would not mention Elsley's having fired at him.

Lucia was still all but senseless, too weak even to ask for Elsley; to attempt any meeting between her and her husband would be madness.
"What will you do with the unhappy man, Mr.Thurnall ?" "Keep him under my eye, day and night, till he is either rational again, or--" "Do you think that he may ?--Oh my poor sister!" "I think that he may yet end very sadly, madam.

There is no use concealing the truth from you.

All I can promise is, that I will treat him as my own brother." Valencia held out her fair hand to the young doctor.