I told you I would explain, Captain Lovelock," she added, "and I hope you think I have made it clear." The Captain had turned very red during this wandering discourse.

He sat pulling his beard and shifting the position which, with his stalwart person, he had taken up on a little gilded chair--a piece of furniture which every now and then gave a delicate creak.
"I always understand you well enough till you begin to explain," he rejoined, with a candid, even if embarrassed, laugh.

"Then, by Jove, I 'm quite in the woods.

You see such a lot more in things than most people.

Does n't she, Miss Vivian ?" "Blanche has a fine imagination," said Angela, smiling frankly at the charming visitor.
When Blanche was fairly adrift upon the current of her articulate reflections, it was the habit of her companions--indeed, it was a sort of tacit agreement among them--simply to make a circle and admire.