"I am not going to sacrifice the name my mother bore to the vanity of a French coxcomb.

You will be kind enough to avoid all society where it is likely that you should meet him.

If you disregard my desires in this matter, I shall be compelled to take means to enforce them." "What means ?" "I shall reduce your allowance." Their eyes met, and perhaps that was the bitterest moment in Etta's life.

Dead things are better put out of sight at once.

Etta felt that Paul's dead love would grin at her in every sovereign of the allowance which was to be hers.