You persuaded the principal and managers when Agatha was ill." "I've come from Toronto and I saw the principal," George replied.
"Couldn't get at anybody else and imagine they didn't want to see me." "Well ?" said Mrs.Farnam when he stopped with some embarrassment.
"She was very polite, with the kind of politeness that freezes you.
Didn't say much--nothing that I could get hold of and deny.

But she implied a lot." "You can be frank.

I believe I'm Agatha's oldest friend and I trust my husband with all I know." "Very well; I've got to talk.

Miss Southern began by supposing I had come to explain my sister's neglect of her duty, which had made things awkward at the school.

I said I had not; I didn't know why Agatha had not come back, but had no doubt it was because she found it impossible.
She'd gone off on an excursion into the northern bush, and accidents happened.