It was the curious blending of professional disappointment and a personal and characteristic appreciation of the surprising situation, which made me observe him, I suppose.

Certainly my heart and mind were full enough not to waste looks on a commonplace stranger unless there had been some such overpowering reason.
I left him still talking to Mr.Fox, and later received this account of the interview which followed between them and Dr.Perry.
"Is this girl telling the truth ?" asked District Attorney Fox, as soon as the three were closeted and each could speak his own mind.

"Doctor, what do you think ?" "I do not question her veracity in the least.

A woman who for purely moral reasons could defy pain and risk the loss of a beauty universally acknowledged as transcendent, would never stoop to falsehood even in her desire to save a brother's life.

I have every confidence in her.