These, at all events, are some of the things which Charles Langholm has to show, if he will only show them.

And in the meantime you are requested not to pity him.
Steel went straight to his wife.

Tears were still in her eyes, but such tears, and such eyes! It cost him an effort to say what he had to say, and that was unusual in his case.
"Rachel," he said at length, in a tone as new as his reluctance, "I am going to answer the question which you have so often asked me.

I am going to answer it with perfect honesty, and very possibly you will never speak to me again.

I shall be sorry for both our sakes if you do anything precipitate, but in any case you shall act as you think best.
You know that I was exceedingly fond of Alec Minchin as a young man; now, I am not often exceedingly fond of anybody, as you may also know by this time.