"Hush-money!" "You _will_ send me back to my papers," rejoined Lady Janet.

"How obstinate you are!" Grace's hand closed tighter and tighter round the rail of the chair.
Without witnesses, without means, without so much as a refuge--thanks to her own coarse cruelties of language and conduct--in the sympathies of others, the sense of her isolation and her helplessness was almost maddening at that final moment.

A woman of finer sensibilities would have instantly left the room.

Grace's impenetrably hard and narrow mind impelled her to meet the emergency in a very different way.

A last base vengeance, to which Lady Janet had voluntarily exposed herself, was still within her reach.