He spoke with quiet confidence.

"I know it's a slow process.
But she is moving in the right direction.

Give her time, old chap! I firmly believe that she will come back to us by slow degrees." "Damnably slow," commented Eustace.

"You're so infernally deliberate always.

You talk as if it were your life-work." Scott's eyes shone with a whimsical light.