Whatever may come of it, I am here, and here I mean to stay.

I am safe here.

At home I am in danger." Phyllis wondered greatly what had come to her friend to make her talk in this wild strain.
"Where were you engaged ?" she inquired casually.

She had come to the conclusion that there was safety in the commonplace: she would not travel out of the region of commonplaces with Ella in her present state.
"Where was I engaged?
Surely I told you.

Didn't I say something about the opera--'Romeo and Juliet' ?--that was to be the place, but I came to you instead.