Do not look away from me.

What has my aunt told you about me ?' She turned her face to him.

Her self-command was so complete that not a throb of her leaping heart betrayed itself in vein or muscle.

She even met his eyes with a placid gaze which he felt as a new aspect of her countenance.
'Mrs.Rossall has never spoken to me of your health,' she said.
'But my father's jokes; he has a way of humorous exaggeration.

You of course understand that; you don't take seriously all he says ?' 'I think I can distinguish between jest and earnest.' 'For all that, you speak of the recovery of my health as if I were still far from the wholly rational stand-point.