But he did not make it.
"Must I really go ?" he asked.

He was, so he had said himself, a sudden person.
His hostess met his deprecating gaze with pure surprise.
"You can't possibly want to stay ?" "I quite possibly can.

I like it here.

And I'm horribly tired." The hostility which had begun to gather in her eyes lightened a little.
"Tired?
I noticed that you limped this morning.

Is there anything the matter with you ?" It was certainly an ungracious way of putting it.