"If my friendship is worth anything, it ought to enable me to share those troubles with you.

You have had a little further disagreement with your husband, I think, and bad luck at the tables.

You ought not to let either of these things depress you too much.

Tell me, do you think that I could help with Sir Henry ?" "No one could help," she replied, her tone unconsciously hardening.
"Henry is obstinate, and it is my firm conviction that he has ceased to care for me at all.

This afternoon--this very afternoon," she went on, leaning across the table, her voice trembling a little, her eyes very bright, "I offered to go away with him." "To leave Monte Carlo ?" "Yes! He refused.