Would you suggest organizing a committee of ladies for the protection of Mr.Courtland ?" "Don't talk nonsense, Ella.

I though that you were his friend, and that you would be as indignant as I was at that disgraceful attack upon his reputation." "I don't think that it will place his reputation in jeopardy, unless with the readers of that paper, and they are not worth taking into account, are they ?" "Papa says the thing has a large circulation among a certain class.

I want him to ridicule the question which is threatened in that article; he knows how to do that kind of thing very well." "Is it come to that, my Phyllis?
Were you really so greatly interested in the one conversation you had with him as to constitute yourself his champion ?" Above all things Phyllis was truthful.

She had never had an experience of love--that passion which can change the most truthful of womankind into the least scrupulous.

There was no pause between Ella's question and Phyllis' answer.
"Certainly the one conversation that I had with him interested me--I told you so returning in the carriage.