The fingers closed over it automatically.

She had noted his action.

On the day and hour suggested she was there, although he had given no name.

That liaison, while delightful to him, was of no great duration.

The lady was interesting, but too fanciful.
Similarly, at the Henry Huddlestones', one of their neighbors at the first Michigan Avenue house they occupied, he encountered one evening at a small dinner-party a girl of twenty-three who interested him greatly--for the moment.