On those conditions, I hold my tongue." "Pompous ass!" Anderson found it a hard task to keep his own pride in check.

It was of a different variety from Delaine's, but not a whit less clamorous.

Yet for Lady Merton's sake it was desirable, perhaps imperative, that he should keep on civil terms with this member of her party.

A hot impulse swept through him to tell her everything, to have done with secrecy.

But he stifled it.