For three days or more they were, it would seem, to journey together, alone together: the prosecution of his duty imposed it on him.

Sooth to say, Weyburn knew that a spice of passion added to a bowl of reason makes a sophist's mess; but he fancied an absolute reliance on Aminta's dignity, and his respect for her was another barrier.

He begged the landlady's acceptance of two shillings for her boy's purchase of a boat, advising her to have him taught early to swim.
Both he and Aminta had a feeling that they could be helpful in some little things on the road if the chariot did not pass.
Justification began to speak loudly against the stopping of the chariot if it did pass.

The fact that sweet wishes come second, and not so loudly, assured him they were quite secondary; for the lover sunk to sophist may be self-beguiled by the arts which render him the potent beguiler.
'We are safe here,' he said, and thrilled her with the 'we' behind the curtaining leaded window-panes.
'What is it you propose ?' Her voice was lower than she intended.

To that she ascribed his vivid flush.