My shortest way back to breakfast was through a wood.

In the wood I met her." "Alone ?" Mr.Hethcote asked.
Rufus expressed his opinion of the wisdom of putting this question with his customary plainness of language.

"When there's a rash thing to be done by a man and a woman together, sir, philosophers have remarked that it's always the woman who leads the way.

Of course she was alone." "She had a little present for me on my birthday," Amelius explained--"a purse of her own making.

And she was afraid of the ridicule of the young women, if she gave it to me openly.