The putting of it was one of the Lieutenant's duties and pleasures; and, notwithstanding its prophecy of peril, Clara enjoyed it almost as much as he.
Well, we have heard these two talk, and much in their usual fashion.

Not great souls as yet: they may indeed become such some day; but at present they are only mature in moral power and in capacity for mighty emotions.
Information, mental development, and conversational ability hereafter.
In one way or another two or three of these tete-a-tetes were brought about every day.

Thurstane wanted them all the time; would have been glad to make life one long dialogue with Miss Van Diemen; found an aching void in every moment spent away from her.

Clara, too, in spite of maidenly struggles with herself, began to be of this way of feeling.

Wonderful place the Great American Desert for falling in love! Coronado soon guessed, and with good reason, that the seed which he had sown in the girl's mind was being replaced by other germs, and that he had blundered in trusting that she would think of him while she was talking with Thurstane.