I'd have come five days ago if I had been able." "It wouldn't have made any difference, Mr.Goodwood," she coldly smiled.
"Not to you--no.

But to me." "You gain nothing that I see." "That's for me to judge!" "Of course.

To me it seems that you only torment yourself." And then, to change the subject, she asked him if he had seen Henrietta Stackpole.
He looked as if he had not come from Boston to Florence to talk of Henrietta Stackpole; but he answered, distinctly enough, that this young lady had been with him just before he left America.

"She came to see you ?" Isabel then demanded.
"Yes, she was in Boston, and she called at my office.

It was the day I had got your letter." "Did you tell her ?" Isabel asked with a certain anxiety.
"Oh no," said Caspar Goodwood simply; "I didn't want to do that.