What does it matter to you how my days are spent, or what manner of use I make of them ?" "There was a time--" she began.
"A time irretrievably past," he interrupted, shortly.
"I am not so sure!" she declared, doubtfully.
"What has Borrowdean to do with this ?" he asked her, abruptly.
"Borrowdean ?" "Surely! Some one has been putting notions into your head." "Why take that for granted ?" she asked, equably.

"The pity of the whole thing is obvious enough, isn't it?
Sometimes I think that we were a pair of fools.

We played into the hands of fate.

We were brought face to face with a terrible situation.

Instead of meeting it bravely we played the coward.