Otherwise it was deserted, except for A.O., and a bashful, overgrown boy of seventeen, who sat opposite her on a chair far too low for him.

It gave him the effect of sprawling, and he was constantly drawing in his long legs and thrusting them out again.

The teacher who was to be drawing room chaperon for the evening had not yet come down.
The lady in black glided into the room with the air of being so absorbed in her own affairs that she looked upon the other occupants as she did the furniture.

Without even a direct glance at the young people in the corner she swept up to a chair within a few feet of them and sat down to wait.

Jimmy, in the midst of some tale about a prank that the High School Invincibles had played on a rival base-ball team, faltered, grew confused and finished haltingly.