"Do you think we ought to mention it ?" I thought not.

There was nothing at all uncommon in the stranger's inquiries, taken by themselves.

We had no right, that I could see, to alarm the widow, because we happened to attach purely fanciful suspicions to a man of whom we knew nothing.

I expressed this opinion to Mr.
Engelman; and he agreed with me.
The same subdued tone which had struck me in the little household in Main Street, was again visible in the welcome which I received in Madame Fontaine's lodgings.

Minna looked weary of waiting for the long-expected letter from Fritz.