Shall I take you back ?" There was something in his voice which meant that this _tete-a-tete_ had been promised him.

Helena resigned herself.

But that she would rather have landed was very evident to her companion, who had been balked of half his chance already by Lady Georgina.

Why did elderly persons liable to faint come to dances ?--that was what he fiercely wanted to know as he pulled out into the lake.
Helena was very quiet.

She seemed tired, or dreamy.