She hesitated, rather through confusion of mind than from unwillingness to accompany me.

This confusion gradually abated, and she moved forward, but with irresolute footsteps, and continual exclamations of wonder and terror.

Her interrogations Of "what was the matter ?" and "whither was I going ?" were ceaseless and vehement.
"It was the scope of my efforts not to think; to keep up a conflict and uproar in my mind in which all order and distinctness should be lost; to escape from the sensations produced by her voice.

I was, therefore, silent.

I strove to abridge this interval by my haste, and to waste all my attention in furious gesticulations.
"In this state of mind we reached my sister's door.