It is better to keep apart for ever than to run any risks.

Supposing that unknown past was of evil, and one discovered it.

To care for him would only make the suffering keener." "It may be so," he admitted.

"May I ask you something ?" "Well ?" "You speak--of yourself ?" Her eyes met his, and he looked hastily downwards.
"Absurd," she murmured, and inclined her head towards the billiard-table.

"They have been--attached to one another always.