The fact is, Mrs.Henley--" "Would it not be better for you to call me Viola ?" she interrupted.
"Someone might overhear, and we must continue to carry out the deception, I suppose." "It will be safer, if you do not object." "I?
Oh, no; I shall not care in the least.

You were saying ?" "This, Viola," and her eyes suddenly flashed into mine, "the conditions I have already discovered here--in this house--are no less strange, and dangerous than the mission which brought us here.

Everything looks bad.

You ought to know it, and you are strong enough to be told.

I do not know who tried your door last night, and later escaped down the trellis.