But anyhow I should think you might find a seat and solitude there, and that, I conclude, is what you most want.

Anyhow, don't bother about me! I can amuse myself here for any length of time." They took her at her word, though neither of them seemed in any hurry to depart.

Dot lingered because the prospect of a _tete-a-tete_ in a strange place, where she could not easily make her escape if she desired to do so, embarrassed her.

And Hill waited, as his custom was, with a grim patience that somehow only served to increase her reluctance to be alone with him.
"Run along! It's getting late," Adela said at last.

"Carry her off, Mr.
Hill! You'll never get her to make the first move." There was some significance in words and smile.