If she is his wife, he asks her if she doesn't think it's about time she was in bed." "I dare say you're right; you have observed men--and women, for that matter--much more closely than I have had time to do.

It's very awkward that he isn't here.

I must bring him back at once." She felt a little movement at her heart; but she only said: "I wouldn't do that, if I were you.

Why shouldn't he be allowed to enjoy his holiday in peace ?" "It's a matter of business; the mine, I told you." "What's wrong with the mine that could be set right by his coming back at once?
Are you not making enough out of it ?" "We're making quite as much as is good for us out of it.

But if we can get a hundred and fifty thousand pounds for a few yards of our claim further east, without damaging the prospects of the mine itself, I don't think we should refuse it--at any rate, I don't think that we should refuse to consider the offer." "What is a hundred and fifty thousand pounds ?" said she.
"I wonder why you dressed yourself as you did last night ?" said he.
The suddenness of the words did not cause her to quail as the guilty wife quails--yes, under a properly managed lime-light.