"Sh! Don't speak above a whisper.

Aunt Elizabeth has wonderful ears." "By Jove, darling, I believe you're two-thirds willing to try it on," he whispered.
"We must be sensible, Hugh.

You see, I can't be married until the twenty-third of May.

Well, aunt is determined to announce the engagement to-morrow night.

Don't you see we couldn't elope until the twenty-second at best, so we're doomed for two months of it in spite of ourselves.