"Do you mean to say that, in keeping your word and showing him your face, you have caused his death ?" "I do.

I had warned him of it before.

I told him there were sights too horrible to look on and live, but nothing would convince him! Oh, why was the curse of life ever bestowed upon such a hideous thing as I!" Sir Norman gazed at her in a state of hopeless bewilderment.

He had thought, from the moment he saw her first, that there was something wrong with her brain, to make her act in such a mysterious, eccentric sort of way; but he had never positively thought her so far gone as this.

In his own mind, he set her down, now, as being mad as a March hare, and accordingly answered in that soothing tone people use to imbeciles, "My dear Madame Masque, pray do not excite yourself, or say such dreadful things.