"I wish I were under _his_ protection now," she said, looking reproachfully at Douglas as she crossed the room.
"What can you expect from a father but hostility ?" said Elinor, bitterly.

"You are a coward, like all your sex," she added, turning to Douglas.

Then she suddenly opened the door, and passed out through it with Marian, whilst the housemaids fled upstairs, the footman shrank into a corner of the landing, and the page hastily dragged the cook down to the kitchen.
The two men, left together in the drawing-room, were for some moments quite at a loss.

Then Mr.Lind, after a preliminary cough or two, said: "Sholto: I cannot describe to you how shocked I am by what I have just heard.

I am deeply disappointed in Marian.