She looked at me as if I were the wicked stepmother.

"You paragon of beauty," said the wicked woman, "all has just happened as I expected," and then she went away quickly.

We may have locked the evils out, but in so doing we have locked ourselves in.

So it ever is, whether thus typified or no, that an evil deed invests itself with the character of doom.

Of course, the evil scientist would have to be outside? or would he?