Why couldn't you leave the thing alone just for a little while--just through the Christmas holidays ?" "I felt so tempted," she muttered.

"I forget who it was who said 'Temptation is so pleasing because it need never be resisted.'" He uttered an impatient exclamation under his breath.
"Let's sit down on the staircase," she pleaded, "I'm warmer now.

I think this would be a nice place to sit down." She sank down on one of the broad, low steps just below the landing, and pulled him down, nestling up close to him.

"Oh, Bill," she whispered, "it _is_ a comfort to be with you--a real comfort.

You don't know what I've gone through since I came up to bed.