'Only be careful' (those were the exact words, if you please), 'and I answer for her life.'-- Oh, dear! what have I said to make him run away from me ?" Randal had left her abruptly, and had shut himself into the drawing-room.

Susan's experience of men had not yet informed her that a true Englishman is ashamed to be seen (especially by his inferiors) with the tears in his eyes.
He had barely succeeded in composing himself, when another servant appeared--this time a man--with something to say to him.
"I don't know whether I have done right, sir," Malcolm began.

"There's a stranger downstairs among the tourists who are looking at the rooms and the pictures.

He said he knew you.

And he asked if you were not related to the gentleman who allowed travelers to see his interesting old house." "Well ?" "Well, sir, I said Yes.