He is ambitious beyond your imaginings, a schemer in ways you know nothing of, and his residence in London during the last fifteen years has been the worst thing that ever happened for England.

To me it is a bitter thing that you should have ignored my warning and accepted his friendship--" "It is not Mr.Draconmeyer who is my friend, Henry," she interrupted.
"You continually ignore that fact.

It is Mrs.Draconmeyer whom I cannot desert.

I knew her long before I did her husband.

We were at school together, and there was a time before her last illness when we were inseparable." "That may have been so at first," Hunterleys agreed, "but how about since then?
You cannot deny, Violet, that this man Draconmeyer has in some way impressed or fascinated you.