Would you laugh at me, I wonder, if I-- ?" She stopped.

Her pale complexion softly glowed into color; her grand dark eyes brightened--she looked her loveliest at that moment.
"I am far more inclined, Stella, to cry over you than to laugh at you," said Lady Loring.

"There is something, to my mind, very sad about this adventure of yours.

I wish I could find out who the man is.

Even the best description of a person falls so short of the reality!" "I thought of showing you something," Stella continued, "which might help you to see him as I saw him.