You have stirred my heart to its depths.

I am not able to analyze these feelings.

I only know what I know." She does not feel the modesty of a young girl; much acting before the public has made her brazen, this midnight beauty with the glowing eyes black as sloes, the pouting lips, the figure of a Hebe.
John Craig may have seen adventures before in his life, and probably has been in many a fix, being fond of spending his vacations in rambling over the wilderness away up in the Michigan peninsula, with a gun on his shoulder; but plainly he has now met the crisis of his whole career.
"Pauline, I am a frank fellow, as you know.

It is not in me to dissemble.
I am going to speak plainly with you," he says, rising to a sitting posture, and looking the actress full in the eyes.
She moves uneasily, and her cheeks, which were erstwhile tinted with scarlet, grow pallid.

Then she sets her teeth and with a smile continues: "That is right, I hate a deceiver worse than anything else on earth.