To stop such an event, I would devote my life.

Something important might be the result of such a conversation.

I might hear disclosed the secret of his influence, and thereby discover the means whereby I could be free, and this freedom might, I hoped, make me his master.
Anyhow, I went.

The dark clouds which swept across the sky hid the pale rays of the moon, and, clothed in black as I was, it would be difficult to see me amongst the dark tall trees.

I hurried to the summer-house, for I wished to be there before they arrived.