"He has explained all this." "Extraordinary conversation for a young man to hold with a young girl," pronounced her ladyship.

"Terence never talked of such things to me." "Terence was too busy making love to you," said Sylvia, and there was the least suspicion of regret in her almost boyish voice.
"That may account for it," her ladyship confessed, and fell for a moment into consideration of that delicious and rather amusing past, when O'Moy's ferocious hesitancy and flaming jealousy had delighted her with the full perception of her beauty's power.

With a rush, however, the present forced itself back upon her notice.

"But I still don't see why Count Samoval should have offered me assistance if he did not intend to grant it when the time came." Sylvia explained that it was from the Portuguese Government that the demand for justice upon the violator of the nunnery at Tavora emanated, and that Samoval's offer might be calculated to obtain him information of Butler's whereabouts when they became known, so that he might surrender him to the Government.
"My dear!" Lady O'Moy was shocked almost beyond expression.

"How you must dislike the man to suggest that he could be such a--such a Judas." "I do not suggest that he could be.