I want to ask you for your help; my position is perhaps harder than yours and Mr.Mutimer's.

We must remember that there is justice to be considered.

If you will give me your aid in doing justice as far as r am able--' In fault of any other possible reply he had involved himself in a subject which he knew it was far better to leave untouched.

He could not complete his sentence, but stood before her with his head bent.
Adela scarcely knew what he said; in anguish she sought for a means of quitting him, of fleeing and hiding herself among the trees.

His accent told her that she was the object of his compassion, and she had invited it by letting him see her tears.