Shut yourself up and cry." Agnes had a sense of humor, and the blatant hypocrisy of the speech made her laugh outright in spite of the genuine regret she felt for her husband's tragic death.

Garvington was quite shocked.

"Do you forget that the body is yet in the house ?" he asked with heavy solemnity.
"I don't forget anything," retorted Agnes, becoming scornfully serious.
"Not even that you count on me to settle your wretched financial difficulties out of poor Hubert's money." "Of course you will, my dear.

You are a Lambert." "Undoubtedly; but I am not necessarily a fool." "Oh, I can't stop and hear you call yourself such a name," said Garvington, ostentatiously dense to her true meaning.

"It is hysteria that speaks, and not my dear sister.