The missionaries are very kind and well-meaning, but there are some things which they do not quite understand.

They may be gentlemen--some of them are; but they are not men of the world.

I have no definite thought or fear, and very good persons, one finds, are occasionally a little dense.

Unless things are very definite, they do not understand." "On the other hand," pursued Jack, in the same reflective tone, as if taking up her thought, "persons who are not good have a perception of the indefinite.

I did not think of it in that light before." Jocelyn Gordon laughed softly, without attempting to meet his lighter vein.
"Do you know," she said, after a little silence, "that I was actually thinking of warning you against Mr.Durnovo?
Now I stand aghast at my own presumption." "It was kind of you to give the matter any thought whatever." He rose and threw away the end of his cigar.