She credited herself with emotions of the most praiseworthy and purest; ignorant that the picture conjured up before her provoked obscure physical jealousies, obscure stirrings of latent unsatisfied passion.

More than ever, surely, did the needle quiver back to that fixed point of most righteous anger.
"Such--such a proceeding cannot have been necessary.

It ought not to have been permitted.

Why did not Miss Damaris walk ?" "Because she was in a dead faint, and we'd all the trouble in life to bring her round." "Indeed," she said, and that rather nastily.

"I am sorry, but I cannot but believe Miss Damaris might have made an effort to walk--with your assistance and that of Cooper, had you offered it.