Who dares to say that you are not ?" "No one--as yet," she replied pointedly.
"What do you mean by that ?" he demanded, flushing through his fair skin.
"I mean that if you met me in the ordinary way, and behaved to me as an ordinary man, people would not talk.

But you shun my society, and even when I am at The Manor, you do not come near because of my presence." "It is so hard to be near you and yet, owing to your marriage, so far from you," muttered the man savagely.
"If it is hard for you, think how hard it must be for me," said the woman vehemently, her passion coming to the surface.

"People talk of the way in which you avoid me, and hint that we love one another still." "It is true! Agnes, you know it is true!" "Need the whole world know that it is true ?" cried Agnes, rising, with a gust of anger passing over her face.

"If you would only come to The Manor, and meet me in London, and accept Hubert's invitations to dinner, people would think that our attachment was only a boy and girl engagement, that we had outgrown.

They would even give me credit for loving Hubert--" "But you don't ?" cried Lambert with a jealous pang.
"Yes, I do.