Duty will always find me ready, Sir Patrick, to my dying day.

Shocking as the whole thing was, I presided calmly over the screams and sobs of my step-daughter.
I closed my ears to the profane violence of her language.

I set the necessary example, as an English gentlewoman at the head of her household.

It was only when I distinctly heard the name of a person, never to be mentioned again in my family circle, issue (if I may use the expression) from Blanche's lips that I began to be really alarmed.

I said to my maid: 'Hopkins, this is not Hysteria.