You are always on the top.

Do try!" He smiled a little, and turned from her.

She saw him approach Warden and tap him on the shoulder.
Warden wheeled sharply, so sharply that the drink he held splashed over the edge of the glass.

The excitement in the room was dying down.

She watched the two men with an odd breathlessness, and in a moment she realized that everyone else present was watching them also.
Then they both turned towards her, and through a great singing that suddenly arose in her ears she heard Adela whisper excitedly, "My dear, he is actually going to introduce that amazing person to us!" She sat up with a stiff movement, feeling cold, inanimate, strangely impotent, and in a moment he was standing before her with Fletcher, and she heard the latter introduce her as his "affianced wife." Mutely she gave him her hand.