I've been happy.

I've not longed for any--any one except a mother.

It's only--" "What don't I understand ?" "I've not told you all." "No?
Well, go on," he said, slowly.
Meaning of the hesitation and the restraint that had obstructed her thought now flashed over Columbine.

It lay in what Wilson Moore might think of her prospective marriage to Jack Belllounds.

Still she could not guess why that should make her feel strangely uncertain of the ground she stood on or how it could cause a constraint she had to fight herself to hide.