Are the masts of the good ship bending like them at this moment?
I hear the wash of the driving rain.

Is _he_ hearing the thunder of the raging waves?
If he had only come back last night!--it is vain to dwell on it, but the thought will haunt me--if he had only come back last night! I tried to speak cautiously about him again to Jessie, as Owen had advised me; but I am so old and feeble now that this ill-omened storm has upset me, and I could not feel sure enough of my own self-control to venture on matching myself to-day against a light-hearted, lively girl, with all her wits about her.

It is so important that I should not betray George--it would be so inexcusable on my part if his interests suffered, even accidentally, in my hands.
This was a trying day for our guest.

Her few trifling indoor resources had, as I could see, begun to lose their attractions for her at last.
If we were not now getting to the end of the stories, and to the end, therefore, of the Ten Days also, our chance of keeping her much longer at the Glen Tower would be a very poor one.
It was, I think, a great relief for us all to be summoned together this evening for a definite purpose.

The wind had fallen a little as it got on toward dusk.