She should not catch me offending again, I determined.
"You must forgive me," I said stiffly, "but your warning seemed a little singular.

If you do not choose to gratify my curiosity, it is of no consequence." "Since you disregarded it," she remarked, lifting her dress from the dew-laden grass on to which we had emerged, "it does not matter, does it?
Only you are very young, and you know little of the world.

Lord Ronald was your predecessor, and he is in a lunatic asylum.

No one knows what lies behind certain unfortunate things which have happened during the last months.

There is a mystery which is as yet unsolved." I smiled.
"In your heart you are thinking," I said, "that such an unsophisticated person as myself will be an easy prey to whatever snares may be laid for me.