Do you object to retire to the next room for a few minutes in the event of his coming back to the library ?" Mercy's courage instantly rose with the emergency.

She refused to leave the two men together.
"Don't think me insensible to your kindness," she said.

"If I leave you with Horace I may expose you to insult.

I refuse to do that.

What makes you doubt his coming back ?" "His prolonged absence makes me doubt it," Julian replied.