half-involuntarily

Updated: May 10, 2025

"I daresay we shall never see him again." "He insulted you, no?" said Bertrand. She yielded, half-involuntarily, to his persistence. "He made some rather horrid insinuations. He spoke of the duel and of what happened at Valpré. And he asked he asked if Trevor knew." A fierce oath burst headlong from Bertrand, the first she had ever heard him utter.

Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell - The Rocks of Valpre