I felt certain of her deciding to help us, if she was only sober enough to reflect on what I had said to her.

The journey to Scotland was a tedious, and perhaps a dangerous, undertaking.

But I had no other alternative to choose.
In those uncivilized days, the Marriage Act had not been passed, and there was no convenient hymeneal registrar in England to change a vagabond runaway couple into a respectable man and wife at a moment's notice.

The trouble and expense of taking Mrs.Baggs with us, I encountered, of course, solely out of regard for Alicia's natural prejudices.

She had led precisely that kind of life which makes any woman but a bad one morbidly sensitive on the subject of small proprieties.