I will take care of you." "Thank you," she said.

"I don't think anything would frighten me.
Nothing seems frightening--now." After which she went into the room where Dr.Redcliff was waiting for her.
* * * * * The Duchess sat alone and thought deeply.

What she thought of chiefly was the Head of the House of Coombe.

She had always known that more than probably his attitude towards a circumstance of this sort would not even remotely approach in likeness that of other people.

His point of view would detach itself from ordinary theories of moralities and immoralities.