Will you think me curious, if I ask her name ?" "Not at all.

I don't know it," said Derrick, with a grim laugh.
She looked at him with surprise in her mournful eyes.
"Oh, look here!" said Derrick, more to himself than to the listener whose sympathy affected him strangely and forced his confidence.

"I've got to tell you everything, if you care to hear it.

You are so clever, 'cute--I beg your Excellency's pardon!--that you will have guessed, as old Bloxford guessed, that I had good reason, or, rather, bad, for leaving England; besides, I hinted it the other night.

I'll tell you what that is, if you care to hear it." "Tell me," she said, in a low voice.