And yet he would sometimes be civil, hoping to cheat me into inadvertencies.

He would ask that man to dine, and then of a sudden would be absent; and during this he was ordering that evidence should be collected! Evidence, indeed! The same servants have lived with me through it all If I could now bring forward evidence I could make it all clear as the day.

But there needs no care for a woman's honor, though a man may have to guard his by collecting evidence!" "But what he did cannot injure you." "Yes, Harry, it has injured me; it has all but destroyed me.

Have not reports reached even you?
Speak out like a man, and say whether it is not so!" "I have heard something." "Yes, you have heard something! If you heard something of your sister where would you be?
All the world would be a chaos to you till you had pulled out somebody's tongue by the roots.

Not injured me! For two years your cousin Hugh's house was my home.