Edgar Wallace

“ It was just that with Peter, who, being neither impressionable nor ardent, could not be affected as other men were affected.
José Bertram did not impress him as she would impress others. To say that Peter had fallen in love with her at first sight is hardly to state a fact. It is true that the sight of the girl, whom he had seen only once before, and then in circumstances which did not arouse his passionate admiration, was sufficient to bring him to his feet, and that all the time he was speaking to Sharpe one-half of his mind was running after her. ”

“ She looked through the window.
“I am expecting somebody very soon,” she said. “I hope you will not think I am inhospitable if I cut this interview short.”
He rose and crossed to her. “Miss Bertram,” he said quietly, “I came here to-day with no other idea than just to renew your acquaintance under more pleasant circumstances, and maybe to ask you a few questions. I don't know you. I have seen you only for five minutes in my life, and I have no right at all, not even the right of a friend, to interfere in your private affairs. ”

“ This was all the information Peter could get, and by the time he returned Sharpe had disappeared. He remembered his engagement with the girl and determined to keep it the next morning.
That a girl should weep at dinner, especially an emotional girl and one who had already demonstrated her electric temperament, was not amazing, not even a matter for regret, unless she happened to be to you a shade different from all other girls. ”