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'For a few minutes she sat, quite vacantly, like an audience of one, on the nearest of the stiff-backed chairs that so absurdly crowded the little parlour; but presently, as no curtain rose, no story unfolded before her, she had to face again the knowledge that the story was her own; she, and she alone, must unfold it; that her cue had been called; and she did not know her part.'

'Better real loyalty that fails than imaginary loyalty that triumphs.'

'The familiar person faced by an un-familiar challenge—who can know or predict his behaviour?'

'A forbidding sort of man; a man who could not be trifled with; and yet, perhaps, a man who longed to be trifled with, just now and then?'

'But, as it turned out, Isabel suffered no worse fate than is common to most liars; namely, the loss of her audience through the sheer dullness of her fabrications.'

'A sister can never really show you a new expression on her face.'