You are talking worse than absurdly--you are talking offensively--when you speak of another woman presenting herself here in your place." Grace's blood was up.

Stung by Julian's reproof, she turned on him a look which was almost a look of fury.
"Are you a clergyman?
Are you an educated man ?" she asked.

"Have you never read of cases of false personation, in newspapers and books?
I blindly confided in Mercy Merrick before I found out what her character really was.

She left the cottage--I know it, from the surgeon who brought me to life again--firmly persuaded that the shell had killed me.
My papers and my clothes disappeared at the same time.

Is there nothing suspicious in these circumstances?
There were people at the Hospital who thought them highly suspicious--people who warned me that I might find an impostor in my place." She suddenly paused.