'And here, of all places!' They were in the heart of the woods.

She found her hand seized--her waist.

Even then, so impossible is it to conceive the unimaginable even when the apparition of it smites us, she expected some protesting absurdity, or that he had seen something in her path .-- What did she hear?
And from her friend's husband! If stricken idiotic, he was a gentleman; the tigress she had detected in her composition did not require to be called forth; half-a-dozen words, direct, sharp as fangs and teeth, with the eyes burning over them, sufficed for the work of defence.

'The man who swore loyalty to Emma!' Her reproachful repulsion of eyes was unmistakeable, withering; as masterful as a superior force on his muscles .-- What thing had he been taking her for ?--She asked it within: and he of himself, in a reflective gasp.

Those eyes of hers appeared as in a cloud, with the wrath above: she had: the look of a Goddess in anger.