There had been between them an intimacy of relation as great as it can possibly be without the final closeness of affection.

The delightful Charley walked in, with his eyes fixed on the back of her governess whose raised veil hid her forehead like a brown band above the black line of the eyebrows.

The girl was astounded and alarmed by the altogether unknown expression in the woman's face.

The stress of passion often discloses an aspect of the personality completely ignored till then by its closest intimates.

There was something like an emanation of evil from her eyes and from the face of the other, who, exactly behind her and overtopping her by half a head, kept his eyelids lowered in a sinister fashion--which in the poor girl, reached, stirred, set free that faculty of unreasoning explosive terror lying locked up at the bottom of all human hearts and of the hearts of animals as well.