"The course of our interview seems to have brought us back to the question that I asked you when you came into my room.

Instead of threatening me with the law, suppose you consider the propriety of permitting me to be of some use to you.

I am in the habit of assisting ladies in embarrassed circumstances, and nobody knows of it but my steward--who keeps the accounts--and myself.

Once more, let me inquire if a little advance of the pecuniary sort (delicately offered) would be acceptable to you ?" Grace returned slowly to the chair that she had left.

She stood by it, with one hand grasping the top rail, and with her eyes fixed in mocking scrutiny on Lady Janet's face.
"At last your ladyship shows your hand," she said.