The idea of thinking that you could tell a falsehood!" The captain bent down and, picking a used match from the hearthrug, threw it carefully under the grate.

Miss Drewitt watched him expectantly.
"We mustn't quarrel with people's opinions," he said, at last.

"It's a free country, and people can believe what they like.

Look at Protestants and Catholics, for instance; their belief isn't the same, and yet I've known 'em to be staunch friends." Miss Drewitt shook her head.

"He can never come here again," she said, with great determination.