Though it had been the fixed purpose of my life that Violet and Oswald should be man and wife, I would have helped you because that other purpose of serving you in all things had become more fixed.

But it was to no good end that I sang your praises.

Violet Effingham was not the girl to marry this man or that at the bidding of any one;--was she ?" "No, indeed." "It is of no use now talking of it; is it?
But I want you to understand me from the beginning;--to understand all that was evil, and anything that was good.

Since first I found that you were to me the dearest of human beings I have never once been untrue to your interests, though I have been unable not to be angry with you.

Then came that wonderful episode in which you saved my husband's life." "Not his life." "Was it not singular that it should come from your hand?
It seemed like Fate.