Marcus had evidently left them no loophole of escape.
"It's just like cutting off your husband's hands, my dear," said Miss Baker.

"And you two were so happy.

When I first saw you together I said, 'What a pair!'" Old Grannis also called during this period of the breaking up of the McTeague household.
"Dreadful, dreadful," murmured the old Englishman, his hand going tremulously to his chin.

"It seems unjust; it does.

But Mr.Schouler could not have set them on to do it.