I am answered; I am dismissed." He paused, and, stepping close up to her, laid his hand on her arm.
"The time may come," he said, "when I shall forgive you.

But the man who has robbed me of you shall rue the day when you and he first met." He turned and left her.
A few minutes later, Mrs.Crayford, entering the conservatory, was met by one of the attendants at the ball.

The man stopped as if he wished to speak to her.
"What do you want ?" she asked.
"I beg your pardon, ma'am.

Do you happen to have a smelling-bottle about you?
There is a young lady in the conservatory who is taken faint." Between the Scenes--The Landing Stage.