"But I can't help understanding what you want." "Does that mean that we are kindred spirits ?" he asked, and suddenly the clasp of his hands was close and intimate.
"I expect it does," said Dinah; but she said it with a touch of uneasiness.

The voice that had spoken within her the night before, warning her, urging her to be gone, was beginning to murmur again, bidding her to beware.
She turned from the subject with ready versatility, obedient to the danger-signal.

"Oh, there is Rose! I am afraid I ran away from her after dinner.

They went upstairs for coffee, but I was so dreadfully afraid of being stopped that I hung behind and escaped.

I do hope the Colonel won't be in a wax again.