A woman can be true as steel and cunning at the same time.

How cunning was Violet, and yet she never deceived one of her lovers, even by a look.

Did she ?" "She never deceived me,--if you mean that.

She never cared a straw about me, and told me so to my face very plainly." "She did care,--many straws.

But I think she always loved Oswald.