She moistened her lips.

"It isn't necessary to--to warn me." "Mind you, I don't say a word against him," he made haste to explain.
"It's what people will say that troubles me.

Perhaps you don't know what they are going to say, Anne, but I do." "Oh, I know what they will say," she muttered.

She looked straight into his eyes.

"They will say that he killed his grandfather--purposely." "It doesn't matter that they say he killed his grandfather, Anne," said he slowly, "so much as that he killed your husband.