And be as frank with him as you have been with me." She smiled and nodded brightly, and turned away.

He had a glimpse of a tan shoe and a slim tan-silk ankle, which poised birdlike above the high doorsill; and then she vanished into the black shadow of the companionway.

She afterward confessed to me that her sensation must have been akin to that of a boy who had stolen an apple and beaten the farmer in the race to the road.
We all make the mistake of searching for our drama, forgetting that it arrives sooner or later, unsolicited.
Bewitched.

Thomas should have been the happiest man alive, but the devil had recruited him for his miserables.

Her piquant face no longer confronting and bewildering him, he saw this second net into which he had permitted himself to be drawn.