"I have nothing to do with it." "Nothing! You are a cold friend to me then.

I thought you one of the surest I possessed." She moved as if about to look at him, but checked herself, closed her lips, and fixed her eyes on the vacant seat before her.

The reproach he deserved was beyond her power of expression.
"I cling to that conviction still, in spite of Miss Lindsay's indifference to my affairs.

But I confess I hardly know how to bring you into sympathy with me in this matter.

In the first place, you have never been married, I have.