And please sit in the other end of the boat, if you don't mind.

The air will be easier to breathe if--" "Certainly," he assented, making his way to the far end of the launch, while she seized the neglected steering wheel again.
"And I am sorrier than I can say, that I have had to tell you all this.

If it were not that you must know it, soon, anyway, I'd have bitten my tongue out, sooner than make you so unhappy.

Please believe that, won't you ?" There was an earnest depth of contrition in his voice that checked the icy retort she had been about to make.

And, emboldened by her silence, he went on: "Hade needed your brother and the use of your brother's house and land.