She would have been as embarrassed as a girl if either of the disputants had been in the least aware of her presence.

Once, she thought, Mrs.Wayne, for the sake of good manners, was on the point of turning to her and explaining the whole situation; but fortunately the exigencies of the dispute swept her on too fast.
Adelaide was shocked, physically rather than morally, by the nakedness of their talk; but she did not want them to stop.

She was fascinated by the spectacle of Marty Burke in action.

She recognized at once that he was a dangerous man, not dangerous to female virtue, like all the other men to whom she had heard the term applied, but actually dangerous to life and property.

She was not in the least afraid of him, but she knew he was a real danger.