She seemed very tall in the mellow starlight.

His tone had struck her unpleasantly.

There was no doubt of his anger, or that Marian would feel the force of it when he found her.
"Oh, she wasn't hurt," he answered dully.
"It's very unfortunate that she was mixed up in it.

I suppose she ought to come home now anyhow." "The point is that she should never have gone! The Willings are not the kind of people I want her to know.

It was a great mistake, her ever going." "Yes, that may be true," said Sylvia quietly.