Perhaps I see things more clearly than you do.

I've been trained to an intellectual view of human phenomena." Her little pink and white face hardened until it looked almost ugly.
The unpercipient young man continued: "And so I take my stand on a position that you must accept on trust.

I am English to the backbone.

You can't possibly dream that I'm not.
Come, dear, let me try to explain." His arm curved as if to encircle her waist.

She sprang away.
"Don't touch me.