"I could cry with sheer vexation." Then she briefly recounted what had occurred.
"What a crusty old man," sympathized Miriam.

"It would serve him right if he did lose his old watch.

Where are they sitting ?" "Down the aisle on the other side at the end," directed Grace.
Miriam turned around in her seat.

"He looks capable of most anything," she remarked after a prolonged stare at the stranger, who was apparently absorbed in his paper.

"Are you sure, however, that you were not mistaken, Grace?
You can't always judge a man by his looks." "You can this man," asserted Grace.