You belong among those who exercise an influence beyond their time.

I only ask you to take the place which is yours." This desperate appeal to Mrs.Lee's ambition was a calculated part of Ratcliffe's scheme.

He was well aware that he had marked high game, and that in proportion to this height must be the power of his lure.

Nor was he embarrassed because Mrs.Lee sat still and pale with her eyes fixed on the ground and her hands twisted together in her lap.

The eagle that soars highest must be longer in descending to the ground than the sparrow or the partridge.