You ought to have told me before, Coralie.

It has been most cruel to let me live in this delusive dream.

If you had told me that night when I came here first, it would have been a momentary disappointment, but I should have gone back to my work none the worse for it." "I might have done it, but I saw in this, my secret power, the means of winning you.

Edgar, it is not too late even now.

Make me mistress of Crown Anstey, and I will find the means of restoring your lost position to you." I turned from her in unutterable loathing.