We do not often threaten, but we brook no interference.

We have the means to thwart it.

I bear no ill-will to your husband, but to you I say this.

If he should be so mad as to defy us, to incite you to disobedience, he must pay the penalty." A servant entered.
"Mr.Reginald Brott is in the small drawing-room, your Grace," he announced.

"He enquired for the Countess Radantz." Lucille rose.