She was in a sufficiently nervous condition to be conscious that tears were always near.
"Are there worse things than you have told me ?" she faltered.
"Yes, worse things than it would be fair to bother you with.

I don't want you to be tormented.

I was a deuced fool before I met you and began to run straight.

Things pile in now that would have lain quiet enough if Walderhurst had not married.

Hang it all! he ought to do the decent thing by me.