Honestly "-- he looked at her--"I wish you could!" "Why ?" she asked, turning her eyes on him for the first time.
Howard was silent for a moment, then he looked at her with a curious gravity.
"Because it would be good for him: because I am afraid for him." "Afraid ?" she echoed.
"Yes," he said, with a nod.

"Some day he will run against something that will bring him to smash.

Some woman--But I beg your pardon.

Do you know, Miss Falconer, that you have a dangerous way of leading one to speak the truth--which one should never--or very rarely--do.

Why, on earth am I telling you all this about Stafford Orme ?" She shrugged her shoulders.
"You were saying 'some woman,'" she said.
He gave a sigh of resignation.
"You are irresistible! Some woman who will be quite unworthy of him.
It's always the case.