"You must know perfectly well that it would have been quite impossible for me to come out with you alone." "But why ?" She sighed.
"You are quite hopeless, or you pretend to be!" "If I am," he replied, "it is because you won't explain things to me properly.

The tables are much too crowded to play comfortably.

Won't you come and sit down for a few minutes ?" She hesitated.

Lane watched her anxiously.

He felt, somehow, that a great deal depended upon her reply.