For where could you find anyone to steal a girl out of an orchestra?
No doubt fellows here and there took a fancy to some pretty one--but it was not for running away with her.

Oh dear no! It needed a lunatic like Heyst.
"Only think what it means," wheezed Davidson, imaginative under his invincible placidity.

"Just only try to think! Brooding alone on Samburan has upset his brain.

He never stopped to consider, or he couldn't have done it.

No sane man.