Steele's blighting conjectures suddenly became truths of the most appalling nature; the astonishing record of Hodges the butler laid bare a multitude of secrets; the brief, almost laconic summing-up of facts in the possession of the Department took the heart out of his body and scorched it with conviction,—for he knew that the Secret Eye had looked into the very soul of the woman he loved and cherished and trusted....
— from Shot With Crimson by George Barr McCutcheon

She had contemplated writing a novel of which the scene should be laid at Hong-Kong,—a novel of a more ambitious nature than 'A Romance of Summer Seas.'
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society