Then, just as I was turning to go, what in the world do you suppose that he did?
He took a step towards me, looked in a sad pensive way into my face, and said: `I wonder whether you could care for me if I were without a penny.' Wasn't it strange?
I was so frightened that I whisked out of the shed, and was off down the road before he could add another word.

But really, Hector, you need not look so black, for when I look back at it I can quite see from his tone and manner that he meant no harm.

He was thinking aloud, without the least intention of being offensive.

I am convinced that the poor fellow was mad." "Hum! There was some method in his madness, it seems to me," remarked her brother.
"There would have been some method in my kicking," said the lieutenant savagely.

"I never heard of a more outrageous thing in my life." "Now, I said that you would be wild!" She laid her white hand upon the sleeve of his rough frieze jacket.