Many visitors came to the house to discuss, to plan, to prepare for work.

A number of good-looking, dancing boys had begun to come in and out in uniform, and with eager faces and a businesslike military air which oddly transformed them.

The recalcitrant George was more transformed than any of the rest.

His eyes looked almost fierce in their anxious intensity, his voice had taken on a somewhat hard defiant ring.

It could not be possible that he had ever done that silly thing by the fountain and that she had splashed him from head to foot.