Grammer is a very wise woman, and she was as wise in that as in other things.

You think there was something very fiendish in the compact, do you not, Miss Melbury?
But remember that the most eminent of our surgeons in past times have entered into such agreements." "Not fiendish--strange." "Yes, that may be, since strangeness is not in the nature of a thing, but in its relation to something extrinsic--in this case an unessential observer." He went to his desk, and searching a while found a paper, which be unfolded and brought to her.

A thick cross appeared in ink at the bottom--evidently from the hand of Grammer.

Grace put the paper in her pocket with a look of much relief.
As Fitzpiers did not take up the money (half of which had come from Grace's own purse), she pushed it a little nearer to him.

"No, no.