"It's because Miss Gourlay refuses to marry Lord Dunroe, and because he's afraid that she'll run away with a very handsome gentleman that stops in the Mitre.

That's what made him lock her up." "Don't you breathe a syllable of that," said the cautious Mrs.Morgan, "for fear you might get locked up yourself.

You know, nothing that happens in this family is ever to be spoken of to any one, on pain of Sir Thomas's severest displeasure; and you have not come to this time of day without understanding what what means.

But don't talk to me, or rather, don't expect me to talk to you.

My head is very ill, and my pulse going at a rapid rate.