I think that if I had been here you would have noticed me." "You arrived this morning ?" "Three or four hours ago.

So, if the remark were not in questionable taste, I should say we had not lost time." "You may say what you please," said Angela, simply.

"Where did you come from ?" Interrogation, now it had come, was most satisfactory, and Bernard was glad to believe that there was an element of the unexpected in his answer.
"From California." "You came straight from California to this place ?" "I arrived at Havre only yesterday." "And why did you come here ?" "It would be graceful of me to be able to answer--'Because I knew you were here.' But unfortunately I did not know it.

It was a mere chance; or rather, I feel like saying it was an inspiration." Angela looked at the geraniums again.
"It was very singular," she said.

"We might have been in so many places besides this one.