But I feel it will, unless you are careful." "I'll be careful, then." "Yes, and you can't be too careful." "You make me frightened." "I would like to make you very frightened indeed, so that you went back humbly to your wife and family." "It would HAVE to be a big fright then, I assure you." "Ah, you are really heartless.

It makes me angry." She turned angrily aside.
"Well, well! Well, well! Life! Life! Young men are a new thing to me!" said Sir William, shaking his head.

"Well, well! What do you say to whiskey and soda, Colonel ?" "Why, delighted, Sir William," said the Colonel, bouncing up.
"A night-cap, and then we retire," said Lady Franks.
Aaron sat thinking.

He knew Sir William liked him: and that Lady Franks didn't.

One day he might have to seek help from Sir William.