He was frantic about this silly girl: that was plain to see.
Why then was he so wretched, seeing she was as irrationally in love with him?
"If it only comes out right," she sighed distrustfully many times a day.
She resolved never to interfere with anything again, but it came rather late, seeing she probably had done the greatest mischief that she ever would be permitted to have a hand in while she lived.

She made up her mind not to think anything about it, but, unfortunately for that plan, she could not get out of sight of her work.

If she had been a man, she would probably have gone to the Adirondacks.

But being a woman she had to stay at home, and sit down among the tangled skeins which she had not skill to straighten.
"If it only comes out right," she sighed again, the evening of that most uncomfortable drive, "If it only comes out right." But it did not look much like it.
I had gone directly in to tea, and so had Richard.

Richard's face silenced and depressed everybody at the table; and Mr.Langenau did not come.
"There is going to be a terrible shower," said some one, and before the sentence was ended, there was a vivid flash of lightning that made the candles pale.
"How rapidly it has come up," said Sophie.