Let me feel that I have one friend who can dare to call me by my name--from whose mouth I shall be pleased to hear my name.

You need not fear that I shall think that it means too much.

I will not take it as meaning what it used to mean." He did not know how to go on with his speech, or in truth what to say to her.

Florence Burton was still present to his mind, and from minute to minute he told himself that he would not become a villain.

But now it had come to that with him, that he would have given all that he had in the world that he had never gone to Stratton.