I have tried to make use of her--to get her influence on my side----" Narramore sprang from the corner of the table on which he had been sitting.
"Why couldn't she hold her tongue! That's just like a woman, to keep a thing quiet when she ought to speak of it, and bring it out when she had far better say nothing.

I feel as if I had treated you badly, Hilliard.

And the way you take it--I'd rather you eased your mind by swearing at me." "I could swear hard enough.

I could grip you by the throat and jump on you----" "No, I'm hanged if you could!" He forced a laugh.

"And I shouldn't advise you to try.