At least you seemed to be a girl a long time.

She had been a little daring, though.

Her stockings were white and of a material widely heralded as silkona.

Still her skirt was of a decent length, so that she apprehended no scandal from this recklessness.
When her genteel escort started the car and guided it by an apparently careless winding of the wheel she felt a glow that was almost pride in his appearance and nonchalant mastery of this abstruse mechanism.

She was frightened at the speed and at the narrow margin by which he missed other vehicles and obtruding corners.