The thought of what she might say made her bite her lips, as if her lips would protect her.
But all these suggestions were but flotsam and jetsam cast to the surface by a more profound disturbance, which, as she could not consider it at present, manifested its existence by these grotesque nods and beckonings.

Consider it, she must, when the committee was over.
Meanwhile, she was behaving scandalously; she was looking out of the window, and thinking of the color of the sky, and of the decorations on the Imperial Hotel, when she ought to have been shepherding her colleagues, and pinning them down to the matter in hand.

She could not bring herself to attach more weight to one project than to another.
Ralph had said--she could not stop to consider what he had said, but he had somehow divested the proceedings of all reality.

And then, without conscious effort, by some trick of the brain, she found herself becoming interested in some scheme for organizing a newspaper campaign.

Certain articles were to be written; certain editors approached.