But, somehow, I never came across a case like that--first hand--before." He walked on slowly beside his companion, who held herself a little stiffly.
"I don't know why you should talk in that way," she said at last, breaking out in a kind of resentment, "as though all our American views are wrong! Each nation arranges these things for itself.

You have the laws that suit you; you must allow us those that suit us." Barnes paused again, his face expressing a still more complete astonishment.
"You say that ?" he said.

"You!" "And why not ?" "But--but you are so young!" he said, evidently finding a difficulty in putting his impressions.

"I beg your pardon--I ought not to talk about it at all.

But it was so odd that----" "That I knew anything about Mrs.Verrier's affairs ?" said Miss Floyd, with a rather uncomfortable laugh.