It would have crushed us both to a certainty if he had not held it up." "Why do you say you know I don't like Mr.Bathurst ?" "I don't exactly know, Miss Hannay, but I have noticed you are the only lady who does not chat with him.

I don't think I have seen you speak to him since we have come in here.

I am sorry, because I like him very much, and I don't care for Forster at all." "What has Captain Forster to do with it ?" Isobel asked, somewhat indignantly.
"Oh, nothing at all, Miss Hannay, only, you know, Bathurst used to be a good deal at the Major's before Forster came, and then after that I never met him there except on that evening before he came in here.

Now you know, Miss Hannay," he went on earnestly, "what I think about you.

I have not been such an ass as to suppose I ever had a chance, though you know I would lay down my life for you willingly; but I did not seem to mind Bathurst.