There are too many ears here." Of a sudden she felt like running home.

Somehow the situation broke upon her with a most embarrassing effect.

She did not take Clark's arm, and she began to tremble.

He appeared unconscious of this, and probably was, for his mind had a fine tangle of great schemes in it just then; but he turned toward his office, and bidding her follow him, walked away in that direction.
She was helpless.

Not the slightest trace of her usual brilliant self-assertion was at her command.