I trusted her implicitly; but of course I now see that I have been wrong in allowing her so much liberty.

Evidently a great deal has been going on of which I had not any suspicion." Douglas said nothing.

His resentment was unabated; but his rage, naturally peevish and thin in quality, was subsiding, though it surged back on him at intervals.

But now that he no longer desired to speak passionately, he would not trust himself to speak at all.

Suddenly Mr.
Lind broke out with a fury that astonished him, preoccupied as he was.
"This--this fellow must have had opportunities of thrusting himself into her society of which I knew nothing.