How--how did you know ?" "I didn't know; I only guessed.

And I think I can guess something else--what your reason was for stealing into this dark corner." It was the man who now looked down, and the woman who looked up.

In a pinch of this kind, it is the woman who is the more courageous.
"He was a-kissin' of me, sir," she whispered in a frank but shamefaced way.

"There was no harm in that, was there?
We're so fond of one another, and how could we know that anyone was dying so near ?" "No, there was no harm," Mr.Gryce reluctantly admitted.

Caught in an absurdity amusing enough in its way, he would certainly under less strenuous circumstances have rather enjoyed his own humiliation.