It is because all I care for in the world is near me, and that I shall never be more than a hundred yards from her as long as the present arrangement continues.' 'We are in a cathedral, remember, Captain De Stancy, and should not keep up a secular conversation.' 'If I had never said worse in a cathedral than what I have said here, I should be content to meet my eternal judge without absolution.

Your uncle asked me this morning how I liked you.' 'Well, there was no harm in that.' 'How I like you! Harm, no; but you should have seen how silly I looked.
Fancy the inadequacy of the expression when my whole sense is absorbed by you.' 'Men allow themselves to be made ridiculous by their own feelings in an inconceivable way.' 'True, I am a fool; but forgive me,' he rejoined, observing her gaze, which wandered critically from roof to clerestory, and then to the pillars, without once lighting on him.

'Don't mind saying Yes .-- You look at this thing and that thing, but you never look at me, though I stand here and see nothing but you.' 'There, the clock is striking--and the cock crows.

Please go across to the transept and tell them to come out this way.' De Stancy went.

When he had gone a few steps he turned his head.