His breath quickened.
He said to himself that he would make Miss Boyce stay and talk to him.
What harm--to her or to Raeburn?
Raeburn would have chances enough before long.

Why admit his monopoly before the time?
She was not in love with him! As to Mrs.Grundy--absurd! What in the true reasonableness of things was to prevent human beings from conversing by night as well as by day?
"One moment"-- he said, delaying her.

"You must be dead tired--too tired for romance.

Else I should say to you, turn aside an instant and look at the library.

It is a sight to remember." Inevitably she glanced behind her, and saw that the library door was ajar.