How came you to frighten my niece?
I heard something like a scream, and naturally looked out.

She was making an apology; she asked you to forgive and forget.

What does all this mean ?" Mr.Le Frank exhausted his ingenuity in efforts of polite evasion without the slightest success.

From first to last (if the expression may be permitted) Mrs.Gallilee had him under her thumb.

He was not released, until he had literally reported Carmina's opinion of him as a man and a musician, and had exactly described the circumstances under which he had heard it.