She told me so herself"-- he assured Fyne with a faint shade of contempt creeping into his tone.
As regards their young lady nobody downstairs had any idea that she had run out of the house.

He dared say they all would have been willing to do their very best for her, for the time being; but since she was now with her mother's friends.

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He fidgeted.

He murmured that all this was very unexpected.