"You don't suppose I ran risks like that, to possess myself of a thing which I meant to give up.
Oh! you need not look as though you were going to spring at me.

I have not got it here, I can assure you.

I parted with it hours ago!" "To whom ?" Virginia demanded.
"My father will find out some day, perhaps," Stella answered.

"I don't see that it's so much his affair.

The men who have to pay for their folly are the men who deserve to pay.