"How could I go to India, for example?
Besides," she began impulsively, and stopped herself.

Here the conductor came round, and interrupted them.

Ralph waited for her to resume her sentence, but she said no more.
"I have a message to give your father," he remarked.

"Perhaps you would give it him, or I could come--" "Yes, do come," Katharine replied.
"Still, I don't see why you shouldn't go to India," Ralph began, in order to keep her from rising, as she threatened to do.
But she got up in spite of him, and said good-bye with her usual air of decision, and left him with a quickness which Ralph connected now with all her movements.

He looked down and saw her standing on the pavement edge, an alert, commanding figure, which waited its season to cross, and then walked boldly and swiftly to the other side.