"May I ask, does Mannering know you as Mrs.Handsell only ?" "Of course!" "This," he continued, "is not the Garden of Eden.

I may be the first, but others will come who will surely recognize you." "I must risk it," she answered.
Borrowdean swung his eyeglass backwards and forwards.

All the time he was thinking intensely.
"How long have you been here ?" he asked.
"Very nearly two months," she answered.

"Imagine it!" "Quite long enough for your little idyll," he said.

"Come, you know what the end of it must be.