I didn't say I knew this rumour was true.

I only said I'd heard it." "When?
When did you hear it!" "Oh, months ago!" And Fanny found any further postponement of laughter impossible.
"Fanny, you're a hard-hearted creature," Isabel said gently.

"You really are.

Don't pay any attention to her, George.

Fred Kinney's only a clerk in his uncle's hardware place: he couldn't marry for ages--even if anybody would accept him!" George breathed tumultuously.