Let me know what manner of man he is.

Is this innate corruptness which brings him so easily to the bait, or is it the stinging smart of injustice from which he may well be suffering?
Or, failing these, has he dared to set his wits against mine, to play the double traitor?
If even a suspicion of this should come to you, there must be an end of Mr.Francis Norgate." Anna toyed for a moment with the rose at her bosom.

Her eyes were looking out of the room.

Once again she was conscious of a curious slackening of purpose, a confusion of issues which had once seemed to her so clear.
"Very well," she promised.

"I will send you a report in the course of a few days." "I should not," Selingman continued, rising, "venture to trouble you, Baroness, as I know the sphere of your activities is far removed from mine, but chance has put you in the position of being able to ascertain definitely the things which I desire to know.