She had a sudden throb of the heart.

Was it the one great question, that which had been like a gulf of fire between them?
"Oh, Turkey--the unpardonable Turk," answered Windlehurst.

"As good a defence of a bad case as I ever heard." "Yes, Eglington would do that well," said the Duchess enigmatically, drawing her cloak around her and adjusting her hair.

Hylda looked at her sharply, and Lord Windlehurst slyly, but the Duchess seemed oblivious of having said anything out of the way, and added: "It's a gift seeing all that can be said for a bad cause, and saying it, and so making the other side make their case so strong that the verdict has to be just." "Dear Duchess, it doesn't always work out that way," rejoined Windlehurst with a dry laugh.

"Sometimes the devil's advocate wins." "You are not very complimentary to my husband," retorted Hylda, looking him in the eyes, for she was not always sure when he was trying to baffle her.
"I'm not so sure of that.