Robert talked to her exactly as he had talked to Dahlia, on the like occasion.

He mentioned, as she remembered in one or two instances, the names of the same streets, and professed a similar anxiety as regarded driving her to the station and catching the train.
"That's a thing which makes a man feel his strength's nothing," he said.
"You can't stop it.

I fancy I could stop a four-in-hand at full gallop.
Mind, I only fancy I could; but when you come to do with iron and steam, I feel like a baby.

You can't stop trains." "You can trip 'em," said Anthony, a remark that called forth general laughter, and increased the impression that he was a man of resources.
Rhoda was vexed by Robert's devotion to his strength.

She was going, and wished to go, but she wished to be regretted as well; and she looked at him more.