She saw those white shirt-sleeves swing into the darkness, and felt at once antagonized against herself and against Robert, and yet she knew that she had never seen a man like him.
"I suppose he has settled it," said Robert.
"I don't know," replied Ellen.
"He sounds dangerous." "Oh, no.

He is a good man.

He wouldn't hurt anybody.

He has always talked that way.

He used to come here and talk when I was a child.
It used to frighten me at first, but it doesn't now.