And I think you said, Mr.Haverley, that the coffee to-night was too strong." "A little so, perhaps," said Ralph, "but it was excellent." "Oh, it shall be better in the morning.

I am sure it will be well for one of us to do one thing, and the other another.

I will make the coffee." "You are wonderfully kind to do anything at all," said Ralph, and as he spoke he heard the clock in the house strike ten.

It was agreeable in the highest degree to walk in the moonlight with this charming girl, but he felt that it was getting late; it was long past Miriam's bedtime, and he wondered why the doctor did not come.
Dora perceived the perturbations of his mind; she knew that he thought it was time for the little party to break up, but did not like to suggest it.

She knew that the natural and proper thing for her to do was to wake up Miriam, and that the two should bid Ralph good-night, and leave him to sit up and wait for the doctor as long as he felt himself called upon to do so, but she was perfectly contented with the present circumstances, and did not wish to change them just yet.