I have felt it in the money-markets of the world, where one plays with millions, where a mistake might mean ruin.

That is why the tables seem dull for me, but all the same it comes home to me." She felt the fierce stimulus of anxious thought.

She knew very well that notwithstanding his quiet manner, she had reason to fear the man who sat by her side.

She feared his self-restraint, she feared the light which sometimes gleamed in his eyes when he fancied himself unobserved.

He gave her no cause for complaint.