I. A. R. Wylie

“ Or do you only cheat the people you are fond of? In any case, who is proposing to cheat him? He is engaged to marry Mademoiselle Theodora de Melville and Mademoiselle Theodora, fully authorized so to speak, presents herself to be married. What more do you want?"
"It's unfair to him," she persisted. "I don't like him, but it is taking a cruel advantage of his misfortune. He doesn't know me—he has forgotten everyone. If he marries me it is out of chivalry—out of nobility—"
"—for which characteristics he has incurred your displeasure" he put in with a sneer. ”

“ Frohlocken who stared at him suspiciously, but Mr. Cecil Saunders was evidently not a man to be easily upset, and he continued on his way undisturbed.
Dr. Frohlocken waited until the hall door had banged on the unknown guest and then hurried upstairs and softly opened the door of his old "Museum." He peered in. Mademoiselle Theodora was still by the mantelpiece and the sound of her uneven breathing told him even more than her attitude of complete abandonment. The torn telegram lay at her feet and the Doctor nodded and scowled in mingled sympathy and annoyance. ”

“ She was arrayed in a dark blue tailor-made costume which showed up her graceful figure to perfection and the gloomy room and heavy depressing furniture formed an admirable background for her fair, somewhat fragile beauty. She had taken her place before the fire and her attitude was sufficiently haughty and self- possessed to make the young man opposite her feel less at his ease than he liked. ”