For all I know, Val may go and enlist." "Oh, come, James!" cried Emily, "you talk as if there were danger." Her comfortable voice seemed to soothe James for once.
"Well," he muttered, "I told you how it would be.

I don't know, I'm sure--nobody tells me anything.

Are you sleeping here, my boy ?" The crisis was past, he would now compose himself to his normal degree of anxiety; and, assuring his father that he was sleeping in the house, Soames pressed his hand, and went up to his room.
The following afternoon witnessed the greatest crowd Timothy's had known for many a year.

On national occasions, such as this, it was, indeed, almost impossible to avoid going there.

Not that there was any danger or rather only just enough to make it necessary to assure each other that there was none.
Nicholas was there early.