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Her dark, wet eyes seemed touched with smouldering fire Frontispiece
“What I have seen,” Matravers said gravely, “I do not like” Page 15
But nothing in her words or in his alluded to it “ 25
Her companion, who was intent upon the wine list, noticed nothing “ 31
“Friends,” she repeated, with a certain wistfulness in her tone “ 65
At half-past four his servant brought in a small tea equipage “ 83
With an old-fashioned courtesy ... he offered her his arm “ 105
There seemed to him something almost unearthly about this woman with her soft grey gown and marble face “ 111
Matravers was suddenly conscious of an odd sense of disturbance “ 135
“I can do it,” she assured him. “I believe you doubt my ability, but you need not” “ 143
“Do you know that man is driving me slowly mad?” “ 149
Matravers found himself wondering at this new and very natural note of domesticity in her “ 169
She did not answer him. But indeed there was no need “ 173
“I am compelled to tell you, and these gentlemen, that your statement is a lie!” “ 191
“You mean this!” he cried thickly. “Say it again—quick!” “ 211
Berenice was lying in a crumpled heap on the low couch “ 233
But there was no answer—there never could be any answer “ 259