I have already told you the essentials--you ought to tell me something.

It would only be fair play." "Why should there be any fair play ?" she asked.
"What have you to say against that ?" I said.

"Do you not number it among your national characteristics ?" "You really wish to know where I come from ?" I expressed light-hearted acquiescence.
"Listen," she said, and uttered some sounds.

I felt a kind of unholy emotion.

It had come like a sudden, suddenly hushed, intense gust of wind through a breathless day.