It seems to me a wicked thing even to think of a girl like that being married to such an utter cad as Simpkins." "I don't know how you can sit there and confess without a blush that you don't know your own mind for two days together.

I'd be ashamed to go back on a thing the way you do.

And I'm not going back on this.
For one thing, I have a duty to perform to you and Doyle, and O'Donoghue and Sabina Gallagher, and the rector and the police sergeant.

In the next place, after all the trouble I've taken to carry this scheme through, I'm not going to give in just at the moment of success.

I shall go in this morning and see O'Donoghue.