Men who have committed themselves to an opinion are always in trouble with the newspapers; some because they cannot get into them, others because they cannot keep out.

If you had put forward a thundering revolutionary manifesto, not a daily paper would have dared allude to it: there is no cowardice like Fleet Street cowardice! I must run off; I have much to do before I start, and it is getting on for three.

Good-bye, Lady Brandon, and everybody." He shook Jane's hand, dealt nods to the rest rapidly, making no distinction in favor of Agatha, and hurried away.

They stared after him for a moment and then Erskine ran out and went downstairs two steps at a time.

Nevertheless he had to run as far as the avenue before he overtook his man.
"Trefusis," he said breathlessly, "you must not go by the four o'clock train." "Why not ?" "Miss Lindsay is going to town by it." "So much the better, my dear boy; so much the better.