He's goin' to tell us what he means.

Go on, Mr.Keith, what do you mean ?" Keith, having broken the ice, and found the water not so chilly as he had feared it might be, plunged in.
"Well, I mean this," he said.

"I confess frankly that I have been very favorably impressed by your niece.

She is an unusual girl--unusually pretty, of course, but much more than that.

She is simple and brave and sensible and frank.