To be explicit, they were discussing her with exceeding frankness--" "Martin!" she cried wrathfully.
"Well, all right," he went on, half repentantly.

"As a matter of fact, I had seen the pair steal up.

My rifle was under my hand.

So I lay there quietly, listening.
"You can realize, Walter, that when I caught sight of those two, looking as though they had materialized from Darius's ghostly hordes, my scientific curiosity was aroused--prodigiously.

So in my interest I passed over the matter of their speech; not alone because I thought Ruth asleep but also because I took into consideration that the mode of polite expression changes with the centuries--and these gentlemen clearly belonged at least twenty centuries back--the real truth is I was consumed with curiosity.
"They had got to a point where they were detailing with what pleasure a certain mysterious person whom they seemed to regard with much fear and respect would contemplate her.