You may be surprised but I assure you I had not perceived this aspect of it till that very moment.

It was like a startling revelation; the past throwing a sinister light on the future.

Fyne opened his mouth gravely and as gravely shut it.

Nothing more.

Mrs.Fyne said, "You had better go," with an air as if her self-possession had been pricked with a pin in some secret place.
And I--you know how stupid I can be at times--I perceived with dismay for the first time that by pandering to Fyne's morbid fancies I had let myself in for some more severe exercise.