She clumsily hinted as much when she invited me.
She's given them that kind of fun before.

They delight in getting trustful-souled gentle reformers before them.

Miss Brentwood thinks I am as mild as a kitten and as good-natured and stolid as the family cow.
I'll not deny that I helped to give her that impression.

She was very tentative at first, until she divined my harmlessness.

I am to receive a handsome fee--two hundred and fifty dollars--as befits the man who, though a radical, once ran for governor.