Somehow or other I found the sense of her near presence a delightful thing.

All her garment seemed imbued with a faint perfume, as though of violets.
"I think that I have only become so quite lately," she said.

"Perhaps it is because I have lived such a quiet life, and now things are so different.

My uncle has been so mysterious, especially during the last few days, and I suppose it has made me suspicious.

Wherever we go, I always seem to fancy that some one is watching us.