But that is no reason why I should not fall in with you when I have the chance.

It is very hard that two people who understand each other can not be friends without other people shoving in their ugly beaks! Where is the harm to any one if we choose to have a few minutes' talk together now and then ?" "Where, indeed ?" responded Letty shyly.
A tall shadow--no shadow either, but the very person of Godfrey Wardour--passed the opening in the wall of the hut where once had been a window, and the gloom it cast into the dusk within was awful and ominous.

The moment he saw it, Tom threw himself flat on the clay floor of the hut.

Godfrey stopped at the doorless entrance, and stood on the threshold, bending his head to clear the lintel as he looked in.
Letty's heart seemed to vanish from her body.

A strange feeling shook her, as if some mysterious transformation were about to pass upon her whole frame, and she were about to be changed into some one of the lower animals.