It seemed a long way from base.
"Wouldn't you like to stand here and watch them ?" he floundered helplessly.
"Oh, dear, no; it's too crowded.

Besides," she added playfully, "I have heard _so_ much about you and your awfully romantic life.

I just want to know all about it." As a trout, one moment in mid-stream swimming and frolicking with the best, finds himself suddenly snatched out upon the bank, gasping and helpless, so Sandy found himself high and dry against the wall, with the insistent voice of his captor droning in his ears.
She had evidently been wound and set, and Sandy had unwittingly started the pendulum.
"Have you ever been to Chicago, Mr.Kilday?
No?
It is such a dear place; I simply adore it.

I'm on my way home from there now.

All my men friends begged me to stay; they sent me so many flowers I had to keep them in the bath-tub.