However, I cannot shrink from my duty, and must face it.

Therefore," he went on with an air of judicial sternness, "therefore, Miss Smithers, I must trouble you to show me this alleged will.

There is a cupboard there," and he pointed to the corner of the room, "where you can make--'um--make the necessary preparations." "Oh, it isn't quite so bad as that," said Augusta, with a sigh, and she began to remove her jacket.
"Dear me!" he said, observing her movement with alarm, "I suppose she is hardened," he continued to himself: "but I dare say one gets used to this sort of thing upon desert islands." Meanwhile poor Augusta had got her jacket off.

She was dressed in an evening dress, and had a white silk scarf over her shoulder: this she removed.
"Oh," he said, "I see--in evening dress.

Well, of course, that is quite a different matter.