"Shall I leave you alone for a little while?
Perhaps you would like to consult your maid?
Indeed, her services might meet all the requirements of the case.

The police would be the first to recognize that a woman who had lost her affianced husband under such terrible----" "Ah, but that is the wretched difficulty I am in.

Poor Monsieur de Courtois was nothing to me." "Nothing to you!" Probably Curtis's brain did not reel, but it assuredly felt like reeling, and it is quite certain that his eyes blazed down on the half-hysterical girl with an intensity that magnetized her into a broken excuse.
"It is--quite--true," she stammered, with the diffidence of a child explaining some lapse which, it was hoped, might not be regarded as a real fault.

"I never dreamed of marriage--in the sense--that people mean--when they intend to live happily together.

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