The most careless question, the most indifferent comment, might, as it seemed to both, be the spark to fire a mine.

Neither had any confidence to say, once they had begun to talk, whither the talk would lead; but they were very much afraid, and they sat very still lest a movement of the one should provoke a question in the other.

She knew his secret, and he was aware that she knew it.

She could not have found it even then in her heart to part willingly with her knowledge.

She had thought over-much upon it during the last day.