I don't mind doing the square thing, all round.

If that's what you mean, if that's all that stands in the way, why, look upon the thing as settled.

There, Tita, old girl, come." Careless or oblivious of her stony silence and starting eyes, he attempted to take her hand.

But she disengaged herself with a quick movement, drew back, and suddenly crouched like a wild animal about to spring.

Curson folded his arms as she leaped to her feet; the little dagger she had drawn from her garter flashed menacingly in the air, but she stopped.
The man before her remained erect, impassive, and silent; the great trees around and beyond her remained erect, impassive, and silent; there was no sound in the dim aisles but the quick panting of her mad passion, no movement in the calm, motionless shadow but the trembling of her uplifted steel.