He is too chivalrous, for one thing, to force a lady's inclination." "Don't trust any of them.

Their motto is: 'All fair in love!' And then, you know, you played him a very shabby trick." "I know I did." Miss Dane laughed at the recollection.
"And he said he would not forget." "So they all said.

That's why I fear it may be one of the three." "And it is one of the three; and you are not the clever girl I give you credit to be if you can not find it out." "How ?" "Are they so much alike in height, and gait, and manner of speaking, and fifty other things, that you can't identify him in spite of his mask ?" "It is not so easy to recognize a masked man when he disguises himself in a long cloak and speaks French in a feigned voice.

Those three men are very much of a height, and all are straight and slender.

I tried and tried again, I tell you, during that last week, and always failed.
Sometimes I thought it was one, and sometimes another." "Try once more," said Miriam, pithily.
"How ?" "Are you afraid of this masked man ?" "Afraid?
Certainly not.