He had taken for granted that she was one of those single women of the present day whose intellectual interests are enough for them, who have never really felt the call of passion, and can be trusted to look at life sensibly without taking love and marriage into account.

To think of Miss Bremerton as having suffered severely from a love-affair--broken her heart, and injured her health over it--was most distracting.

If it had happened once--why, of course, it might happen again.

She was not immune; in spite of all her gifts, she was susceptible, and it was a horrid nuisance.
He went home all on edge, what with the adventure of the gates, the encounter with the engineer fellow, and now the revelations of the Rector.
As he approached the house, he saw from the old clock in the gable of the northern front that it was two o'clock.

He was half-an-hour late for lunch.