"If Maqueda is chairman of the Bench we are pretty certain of an acquittal, for Orme's sake if not for our own." "Don't you be too sure of that," I whispered into his ear.

"The circumstances are peculiar, and women have been known to change their minds." "Adams," he replied, glaring at me through his smoked spectacles, "If you talk like that we shall quarrel.

Maqueda change her mind indeed! Why, it is an insult to suggest such a thing, and if you take my advice you won't let Oliver hear you.

Don't you remember, man, that she's in love with him ?" "Oh, yes," I answered, "but I remember also that Prince Joshua is in love with her, and that she is his prisoner.".