Does it not sound incredible ?" "Sound?
It is incredible--impossible--absurd!" "Precisely.

It is an accomplished fact, all the same." "Blanche, for Heaven's sake, explain!" exclaimed the young man, impatiently.

"What the foul fiend do you mean?
I never heard such a cock-and-bull story in all my life!" "Nor I.But it is true, nevertheless.

Listen: On the night following the dinner-party I did the meanest action of my life.

I played eavesdropper.
I listened at Mollie's door.