"Peculiar?
No, never! What do you mean ?" "Are you quite sure of that ?" he insisted.
She began to falter in spite of herself.

"Never, until--until quite lately.

Never till you gave her those--abominable--cigarettes." "Believe me, there is no harm whatever in those cigarettes," he said.

"I smoke them myself constantly.

Try them for yourself if you don't believe me.