So he can be put away in some nice quiet place and we'll be able to stop worrying about this whole wretched affair.

I am glad I said he was an honourable man, out of all this wretched affair.

She's really too young to have to be let in for these wretched formal affairs.

He did not want to talk at large about this wretched affair.

For he knew beforehand-so well, so well-that there was no interest or pleasure to be derived from these wretched affairs.

They had always been too busy, though, she and he; and now this wretched affair had begun.

"In fact, it sounds to me as if the only things you can trust in this whole wretched affair are the paintings themselves."

Sara briefly wondered whether she shouldn't plead guilty, just to get the whole wretched affair over with.

"Now all we have to do is force a general engagement and get this wretched affair over with."

But she also was no bystander in this wretched affair.