Yet a dog and a dark room give me the shudders.

Funny, Val, isn't it ?" Valentine answered, "If it is a dog and a dark room." "What else can it possibly be ?" Julian said with an accent of rather unreasonable annoyance.
"I don't know.

But I did draw the curtain completely over the door to-night.

Julian, I am getting interested in this.

Perhaps--who knows ?--in the end I shall have your soul, you mine." He laughed as he spoke; then added: "No, no; I don't believe in such an exchange; and, Julian, I scarcely desire it.