Why should I ?" "Well you see, Agnes, I fancied--" "Don't fancy anything.

Noel and I entirely understand one another." "I hope," blurted out the other woman, "that it is a right understanding ?" Agnes winced, and looked at her with enforced composure.

"I am devoted to my husband," she said, with emphasis.

"And I have every reason to be.
He has kept his part of the bargain, so I keep mine.

But," she added with a pale smile, "when I think how I sold myself to keep up the credit of the family, and now see Freddy entertaining this riff-raff, I am sorry that I did not marry Noel, whom I loved so dearly." "That would have meant our ruin," bleated Lady Garvington, sadly.
"Your ruin is only delayed, Jane.