12/14 But no! that hope was madness.... It was preposterous and impossible.... Oh God! for a little more patience! "What I have just said may seem a little enigmatic to your ladyship," he continued blandly, "but surely so clever a woman as yourself, so great a lady as is the wife of Sir Percy Blakeney, Baronet, will be aware that there are other means of destroying an enemy than the taking of his life." "For instance, Monsieur Chauvelin ?" "There is the destruction of his honour," he replied slowly. |