Confound it all, I'm like a man in a beastly novel, a man 'with a secret,' a mystery." "'Beastly novel!' I forgive you the blasphemy," said Reggie, "because I treasure you.

A real live man with a secret is more precious than rubies in the eyes of a novelist.

There, go in and get something to eat, if you can eat; I couldn't, if I were going to marry Celia Grant." "And I can't--eat, I mean," said Derrick, and with something between a laugh and a sigh he rose and went into the inn..