We were all chatting together until we came out.

She came to the trap with me while they stood at the open window.

It was not more than a minute before I drove off.

I have not spoken to the girl half a dozen times since she was a little child.
"Why, man, if everyone took such insane fancies in his head as you do, no man would dare to speak to a woman at all.
"However," he went on in an altered voice, "this is not a time for anger.

You are very ill, Lechmere, but the doctor has not given you up, and I trust that you will yet get round and will be able to prove to your own satisfaction that, whatever has happened to this poor girl, I, at least, am wholly innocent of it.