I. A. R. Wylie

“ He had heard Rogers' voice and the succeeding silence, and the seething jealousy at his heart had turned from its old course and burst into a double channel.
He laughed to himself. Now he understood Rogers' solicitude for his dead friend and his dead friend's son. Behind his back, under cover of a seeming indifference, this outcast had made his way into Eileen's confidence and won her gratitude—perhaps more. With women pity and gratitude are stepping-stones to a higher feeling. Delisle knew that. By such means he almost won—and by the merest had chance lost. ”

“ Fenton's invention a failure! Given every chance that money and skill could devise—given a fair and public trial—and yet a failure! With one blow his own past judgment would be justified, her conscience freed, and Rogers' championship made ludicrous. ”

“ CHAPTER XIII. That moment during which Delisle had hesitated outside his wife's door had been one of violent crisis. He had been drinking heavily, yet for that instant the fumes were dispersed and his mind became clear, acutely, almost unnaturally alert. ”