You must credit what I am saying; I want you to give me distinct assurance that you do so.

If I have the least doubt, it will trouble my mind in earnest.' Miss Hood rose to her feet in that graceful effortless way of which girls have the secret.
'You attribute a meaning to my words that I never thought of,' she said, again in the distant respectful manner.
Wilfrid also rose.
'And you give me credit for understanding myself, for being as much master of my mind as I am of my actions ?' 'Surely I do, Mr.Athel.' 'You are going to the house?
It is nearly five o'clock your conscience tells you that a civilised being must drink tea.

I think I shall walk over to Greenhaws; I may as well save Mrs.Winter the trouble of bringing back the children.' He hesitated before moving away.
'How little that cloud has changed its form! I should like to stay here and watch it till sunset.

In a week I suppose I shall be looking at some such cloud over Mont Blanc.

And you, in Dunfield.' 'No, there we have only mill-smoke.' She smiled, and passed from the hollow to the road..