Have you the original manuscript of 'The Diamond Gate' ?" "No," said Doria.
"Well--don't you see ?" said Jaffery, with a smile.
For the first time I praised Old Man Jornicroft.

He had brought up his daughter far from the madding mechanics of the literary life.

To my great relief, Doria swallowed the incredible story.
"It was careless of you not to have given special instructions for the manuscript to be saved, I must say.

But if it's gone, it's gone.

I'm not unreasonable." "I think you are," said Barbara, who had been arranging flowers in the drawing-room, and had emerged onto the terrace.