And it has been quite ten minutes too long." "If I were a filibuster"-- he answered bitterly and suggestively.
She interrupted him, saying, with a purring softness: "If you had only courage enough--" He waved his hand angrily.

"If I had, I should hope you would prove a better friend to me than you are to this man." "Ah, in what way do I fail towards 'this man' ?" "By encouraging his downfall.

See--I know I am taking my life in my hands, as it were, but I tell you this thing will do you harm when it goes abroad." She felt the honesty of his words, though they angered her.

He seemed to impute some personal interest in Valmond.

She would not have it from any man in the world.
"If you will pick up my handkerchief--ah, thank you! We must travel different roads in this matter.