All wisdom tells us that a moment once gone is irrevocable.

Were I in your place, I should feel that I approached a moment that I must not lose.

I have said enough; now I shall rejoin Mrs.
Ashleigh." "Stay--tell me first what Lady Haughton's letter really contains to prompt the advice with which you so transport, and yet so daunt, me when you proffer it." "Not now; later, perhaps,--not now.

If you wish to see Lilian alone, she is by the Old Monk's Well; I saw her seated there as I passed that way to the house." "One word more,--only one.

Answer this question frankly, for it is one of honour.