At any rate, I speak for myself; I don't know anything about the others.

Very likely, you detest them for the dull life they make you lead.

Really, it would give me a sort of pleasure to hear you say so." Eugenia had been looking at the door on the other side of the room; now she slowly turned her eyes toward Robert Acton.

"What can be the motive," she asked, "of a man like you--an honest man, a galant homme--in saying so base a thing as that ?" "Does it sound very base ?" asked Acton, candidly.

"I suppose it does, and I thank you for telling me so.