If he had been born in a low class of life, he would have been a criminal." "Oh!" Emily exclaimed.
"Any number of people would be criminals if circumstances did not interfere.

It depends a good deal on the shape of one's skull." "Oh!" exclaimed Emily again, "do you think so ?" She believed that people who were bad were bad from preference, though she did not at all understand the preference.

She had accepted from her childhood everything she had ever heard said in a pulpit.

That Walderhurst should propound ideas such as ministers of the Church of England might regard as heretical startled her, but he could have said nothing startling enough to shake her affectionate allegiance.
"Yes, I do," he answered.

"Osborn's skull is quite the wrong shape." But when, a short time after, Captain Osborn brought the skull in question into the room, covered in the usual manner with neatly brushed, close-cropped hair, Emily thought it a very nice shape indeed.