"We saw you coming out." "I wasn't," he explained, moving to depart.

"I'd just brought Miss Vertrees home." "What ?" she cried.
"Yes," he said, and stepped out upon the porch, "that was it.

Good night, Sibyl." "Wait!" she said, following him across the threshold.

"How did that happen?
I thought you were going to wait while those men filled the--the--" She paused, but moved nearer him insistently.
"I did wait.

Miss Vertrees was there," he said, reluctantly.