You can't wonder that I shouldn't be in a hurry." "I am not advocating anything like hurry, my dear.

But, goodness gracious me! I've been here twenty-eight minutes, and that horrid man will impose upon me.

Good-bye; God bless you! Mind you write." And Lady Macleod hurried out of the room more intent at the present moment upon saving her sixpence than she was on any other matter whatsoever.
And then John Grey came up to town, arriving a day or two after the time that he had fixed.

It is not, perhaps, improbable that Alice had used some diplomatic skill in preventing a meeting between Lady Macleod and her lover.

They both were very anxious to obtain the same object, and Alice was to some extent opposed to their views.