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Such a life would be a living death to me . '' `` Kindly confine yourself to answering my questions , '' retorted Counsel harshly . `` I suggest that you were far more than imprudent . I suggest that when you and Hadi Bey remained together in that pavilion on the Bosporus until midnight , until after midnight , you -- '' and then followed another hideous accusation , which , gazing with her observant eyes at the brick-red shaven face of her accuser , Mrs. Clarke quietly denied . She never showed temper . Now and then she gave indications of a sort of cold disgust or faint surprise . But there were no outraged airs of virtue .