Sax Rohmer

“ More than once she had spoken of this to Trepniak, but he had denied any knowledge of the matter.
Her second interview with Sir Provost Hope had resulted in a definite change of outlook, however; annoyance had become fear, repulsion. She had followed his advice down to the smallest detail; and since thus punctiliously setting her affairs in order, she had ceased to experience those unaccountable lapses, those gaps in her memory, upon which no process of reasoning could throw any light.
She did not fear men. Early in life she had learned what the brute in man can be capable of at its worst. ”

“ She walked across to the window, and, drawing the curtains aside, looked along Piccadilly in the direction of the Green Park.
There was a brilliant moon, and now, as the hour was after midnight and pedestrians were comparatively few, a desire for that sort of solitude which can only be known in the open air came to her insistently. She determined to put a long coat over her evening frock and to walk, in the hope that exercise would bring physical weariness and thus induce sleep. ”

“ You have dismissed me, and I accept my dismissal, but I am leaving England almost immediately; we shall probably never meet again. You have meant more in my life than you will ever know. I am not a good man, but I am not ungenerous. I wish to be grateful. It is the last joy in your power to grant me. Can you refuse it?"
Not unmoved by his earnestness, Madame Sabinov turned her slow regard upon the speaker. ”