If I have taken the liberty to detain you, it is not from any uneasiness for myself and my--companion.

The person I was thinking of when I made up my mind to invoke your assistance is Mrs.Schomberg." "I have talked with her," interjected Davidson.
"Oh! You?
Yes, I hoped she would find means to--" "But she didn't tell me much," interrupted Davidson, who was not averse from hearing something--he hardly knew what.
"H'm--Yes.

But that note of mine?
Yes?
She found an opportunity to give it to you?
That's good, very good.

She's more resourceful than one would give her credit for." "Women often are--" remarked Davidson.

The strangeness from which he had suffered, merely because his interlocutor had carried off a girl, wore off as the minutes went by.