"It's difficult to say at this distance.
One must be on the spot to make a proper estimate.

Anything may happen." She was evidently anxious to ask him a question, but hesitated.

At last she ventured, and her breath came a little shorter as she spoke.
"I suppose you wish you were in South Africa now.

You could do so much to straighten things out, to prevent the worst.

The papers say you have a political mind--the statesman's intelligence, the Times said.