"It would be sheerest nonsense in your eyes, I know.

You would but laugh at what half drives me mad!" Jasper!" "Don't look at me with that reproachful face, Olivia! It is true.

You would look upon it as sheerest folly, I tell you, and laugh at me for a credulous fool." "No," said Lady Kingsland, quietly, and a little coldly.

"You know me better.

I could never laugh at what gives my husband pain." "Pain! I have lived in torment ever since, and yet--who knows ?--it may be absurdest jugglery.