The clean vegetable smell of tobacco is unendurable to them.

Allow me to retire--and let me thank you for the trouble you took to save my drawing." The tone of indifference in which he expressed his gratitude piqued Francine.

She resented it by drawing her own conclusion from what he had said of the ladies and the musk deer.

"I was wrong in admiring your drawing," she remarked; "and wrong again in thinking you a strange man.
Am I wrong, for the third time, in believing that you dislike women ?" "I am sorry to say you are right," Alban Morris answered gravely.
"Is there not even one exception ?" The instant the words passed her lips, she saw that there was some secretly sensitive feeling in him which she had hurt.

His black brows gathered into a frown, his piercing eyes looked at her with angry surprise.