And it would amaze you, too, if I should tell you how many, many people you know are, in some degree, more or less insane.
"But there is no use in going into such matters; all I meant to convey to you was that I am not frightened now at any threat of that sort from him.
"I don't know what passed between you and him; he won't tell me; but I do know from the servants that he has been quite ill--I was in Westchester that night--and that something happened to his eyes--they were dreadful for a while.

I imagine it has something to do with veins and arteries; and it's understood that he's to avoid sudden excitement.
"However, he's only serenely disagreeable to me now, and we see almost nothing of one another except over the card-tables.

Gerald has been winning rather heavily, I am glad to say--glad, as long as I cannot prevent him from playing.

And yet I may be able to accomplish that yet--in a roundabout way--because the apple-visaged and hawk-beaked Mr.Neergard has apparently become my slavish creature; quite infatuated.

And as soon as I've fastened on his collar, and made sure that Rosamund can't unhook it, I'll try to make him shut down on Gerald's playing.