If you feel the slightest alarm, I will wait in another part of the garden, so that I can hear if you call me." She received my proposal with a saucy toss of the head, and a smile of pity for my ignorance.
"You are a stranger, Mr.Lefrank, or you would never talk to me in that way.

In America, we don't do the men the honor of letting them alarm us.

In America, the women take care of themselves.

He has got my promise to meet him, as you say; and I must keep my promise.

Only think," she added, speaking more to herself than to me, "of John Jago finding out Miss Meadowcroft's nasty, sly, underhand ways in the house! Most men would never have noticed her." I was completely taken by surprise.