Haven't I been away as well as you?
I certainly cannot imagine how any man could create such evident excitement in your mind.

Poor Clarke, what has he done now ?" "You might have told me.

Somebody could have told me and saved me from making a fool of myself," retorted Betty, who was plainly on the verge of tears.

"I rode down to the old sycamore tree and he saw me in, of all the places in the world, the one place where I would not want him to see me." "Huh!" said the Colonel, who often gave vent to the Indian exclamation.

"Is that all?
I thought something had happened." "All! Is it not enough?
I would rather have died.