"There are always exceptions, circumstances, to govern every case.

In this case, she does not know.

I tell you that, if I take your advice, I should blast the life of the woman I--I love." "Then you are screening a man for her sake ?" said Celia.
"That's it," he admitted; "and you would do the same, if you stood in my place.

Oh, you would say you would not; perhaps you think at this moment you would not; but you would.

You're just the sort of girl to do it." He laughed again, bitterly.