C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

“ Then he looked from us to the Jennings, whom he had never seen before. I introduced them, and for the first time I became aware that Gaby Lorraine could, when she wished intensely, charm a man. She radiated some subtle attraction of sex, deliberately radiated it, and without one spoken word. She hadn't tried that stunt on my Jim, and if she had on Ralston Murray, I hadn't been there to see. There was something she wanted to get out of Sir Beverley! ”

“ And quite a new sort of respect for her grew up within me, respect for her physical courage. She was such a tall, lily-in-silver-moonlight creature, and so sensitive, that one could not have been disgusted with her, as one can with some women, for cowardice, but she was brave in her love. ”

“ But I didn't feel that would be giving the man his best chance. He's in love with his wife, and in love with his house. I wouldn't separate him from either,”
This was splendid of Sir Beverley, and splendid for Murray, except for one possibility which I foresaw. What if Rosemary or Murray himself should suggest Paul Jennings as the doctor's understudy? I was afraid that this might happen, both because Jennings lived so near the Manor, and because of the friendship which Rosemary had oddly struck up with the French wife. ”