If I were not certain it would be so, I should----" He stopped suddenly, staring absently at the fire with a darkening brow.
"You would do what, John ?" "Hate this man Holbrook almost as savagely as you hate him, for having come between you and your happiness.

Yet, if Marian Nowell did not love you--as a wife should love her husband, with all her heart and soul--it was ten thousand times better that the knot should be cut in time, however roughly.

Think what your misery would have been if you had discovered after your marriage that her heart had never been really yours." "I cannot imagine that possible.

I have no shadow of doubt that I should have succeeded in winning her heart if this man had not robbed me of her.
My absence gave him his opportunity.

Had I been at hand to protect my own interests, I do not think his influence could have prevailed against me." "It is quite natural that you should think that," John Saltram said gravely.