My timidity returned on me tenfold.

I looked in her face for any signals of anger, and seeing her eyes to waver and fall aside from mine, augured that all was well.
'You must have been mad to come here!' she broke out.

'Of all places under heaven this is no place for you to come.

And I was just thinking you were safe in France!' 'You were thinking of me!' I cried.
'Mr.St.Ives, you cannot understand your danger,' she replied.

'I am sure of it, and yet I cannot find it in my heart to tell you.