Yes, I almost leaped.
She'll never know how near I came to it....

Perhaps Josh's more than half-right and I'm oversophisticated.

My doubts and delays may cost me a kind of happiness I'd rather have than anything on earth--IF it really exists." There he laughed comfortably.

"Poor Rita! If she only knew, how cut up she'd be!" He might not have been so absolutely certain of her ignorance could he have looked into the Severances' drawing-room just then.

For Margaret, after a burst of hysterical gayety, had gone to the far end of the room on the pretext of arranging some flowers.