"She's blushing!" Isabel did blush, but she laughed.

"Who wouldn't blush!" she cried, and her sister-in-law came to her assistance.
"The important thing," said Fanny jovially, "is that Wilbur did get her, and not only got her, but kept her!" Eugene was as pink as Isabel, but he laughed without any sign of embarrassment other than his heightened colour.

"There's another important thing--that is, for me," he said.

"It's the only thing that makes me forgive that bass viol for getting in my way." "What is it ?" the Major asked.
"Lucy," said Morgan gently.
Isabel gave him a quick glance, all warm approval, and there was a murmur of friendliness round the table.
George was not one of those who joined in this applause.

He considered his grandfather's nonsense indelicate, even for second childhood, and he thought that the sooner the subject was dropped the better.