If you think it, you'll be carried forward to just such disaster on the current of the thought.

Be sure--quite, quite sure--that there will be someone at hand, even if it's only me"-- quaintly.
"The Good Samaritan again?
But you mightn't know I was in a difficulty," she protested.
"I think I should always know if you were in trouble," he said quietly.
There was a new quality in the familiar lazy drawl--something that was very strong and steady.

Although he had laid no stress on the word "you," yet Nan was conscious in every nerve of her that there was an emphatic individual significance in the brief words he had just uttered.

She shied away from it like a frightened colt.
"Still you mightn't come to the rescue, even if I were struggling in the quicksands," she answered.
"I should come," he said deliberately, "whether you wanted me to come or not." Followed a brief pause, charged with a curious emotional tensity.

Then Mallory remarked lightly: "I enjoyed the Charity Concert at Exeter." "Were you there ?" exclaimed Nan in surprise.
"Certainly I was there.