But you must come to The Manor, and meet me here, there, and everywhere, so that people shall not say, as they are doing, that you are dying of love, and that, because I am a greedy fortune-hunter, I ruined your life." "They do not dare.

I have not heard any--" "What can you hear in this jungle ?" interrupted Lady Agnes with scorn.
"You stop your ears with cotton wool, but I am in the world, hearing everything.

And the more unpleasant the thing is, the more readily do I hear it.

You can end this trouble by coming out of your lovesick retirement, and by showing that you no longer care for me." "That would be acting a lie." "And do I not act a lie ?" she cried fiercely.

"Is not my whole marriage a lie?
I despise myself for my weakness in yielding, and yet, God help me, what else could I do when Garvington's fair fame was in question?
Think of the disgrace, had he been prosecuted by Hubert.