"Russ, let me tell you--whenever anything frightens me since we got here I think of you.

If you're only near I feel safe." We paused at the door leading into the big parlor.

Couples were passing.
Here I could scarcely distinguish the last words she said.

She stood before me, eyes downcast, face flushed, as sweet and pretty a lass as man could want to see, and with her hand she twisted round and round a silver button on my buckskin vest.
"Dance with me, the rest of this," she said.

"George shooed away my partner.