Wade laid Mary Damer against the thwart.

He had recognized in Mary Damer from the first a heart as true, whole, noble, and healthy as his own.

I did not take you for Mrs. Damer in the card-room a little while ago.

It was he who so kindly shunted Mrs. Damer on to me.

Damer: Let her go on prattling out Damer to my face, as it is often she called it behind my shoulders.

He often did assist Mrs. Damer with that careless, half-insolent gallantry of his that no woman ever dreamed of resenting.