Then I realized that we were standing beside the granite posts marking the entrance to the Colton grounds.

I had been so wrapped in my unpleasant thoughts and forebodings that we had reached our journey's end without my noticing it.
"Well!" I exclaimed, and then added the brilliant observation, "We are here, aren't we." "We are," she said, dryly.

"Didn't you know it ?" "Why, I had not realized.

The walk has seemed so short." "Yes, I'm sure it must.

I think you have spoken exactly six words in the last five minutes.