An unsparingly brilliant person might feel himself entitled to the right to call her stupid." "Is she talkative ?" "Far from it.

One of her charms is the nice respect she seems to feel for the remarks of others." "And she is not excitable ?" "Rather the reverse.

If excitability is liveliness, she is dull." "I see," slowly, "you have not yet thought it possible that she might--well--be under some delusion." Warren turned quickly and looked at her.
"It is wonderfully brilliant of you to have thought of it.

A delusion ?" He stood and thought it over.
"Do you remember," his wife assisted him with, "the complications which arose from young Mrs.Jerrold's running away, under similar circumstances, to Scotland and hiding herself in a shepherd's cottage under the impression that her husband was shadowing her with detectives?
You recollect what a lovable woman she was, and what horror she felt of the poor fellow." "Yes, yes.

That was an Extraordinary Case too." Mrs.Warren warmed with her subject.
"Here is a woman obviously concealing herself from the world in a lodging-house, plainly possessing money, owning a huge ruby ring, receiving documents stamped with imposing seals, taking exercise only by night, heart-wrung over the non-arrival of letters which are due.