That is why I can't trust Jim with you alone, and why I could hardly trust myself there without Jim's sustaining looks--that is why, in fact, that I shall try to shun you in all but your approximately Peavey moments.

I trust now that this shall be the last time I must ever speak bitterly in your presence.

You are sufficiently warned." While I spoke she had ceased rowing, and we drifted with the current.

A long time we drifted, and I rejoiced to see that I had taunted Miss Lansdale into something like interest.

I saw that she was uncertain as to the degree of seriousness I had meant my words to convey.