I could sit down on the beach there and listen to the larks singing on the marshes.

Oh! it would be such a rest--so peaceful! Mr.Andrew, is it quite impossible ?" He played his part well enough, laughing at her good-humouredly.
"It is more than impossible," he said.

"If you stayed here for any time at all, your stepmother would come and fetch you back, and I should get into terrible disgrace.

Mr.De la Borne would probably turn me out of my house," he added as an afterthought.
She sat down and looked out of the window in despair.

The storm was still raging.