She regards me as a husband in name only, and will dissolve the tie at her own convenience." "You'll place no obstacles in her way ?" "None." "Quite sure ?" "Absolutely." Clancy giggled, as though he were a comedian who had scored a point with his audience.
"Then you're married for keeps," he announced, with the grin of a man who has solved a humorous riddle.

"By refusing to thwart the lady you throw away your last slender chance of freedom, and you will find her waiting at the gate of the State Penitentiary when you come out.

By Jove, you've been pretty rapid, though.

No wonder people say the East is waking up.

Are there many more like you in China ?" Curtis was not altogether pleased by this banter, nor did he trouble to conceal his opinion that the New York Detective Bureau was treating a grave crime with scandalous levity.
"Whether Lady Hermione married me or Jean de Courtois is a rather immaterial side issue," he said, somewhat emphatically.