I could see it did not affect him in the least.

"Nay, I know what you mean; but I had forgotten her, or, if not absolutely forgotten, she was not in my mind just then.

We will go another way, as indeed I had intended: it might annoy the young lady, our meeting her again." His grave, easy manner of treating and dismissing the subject was a tacit reproach to me.

I let the matter drop; we had much more serious topics afloat than gossip about our neighbours.
At seven next morning we were out on the Flat.
"I'm not going to let you stand here in the dews, Phineas.

Come a little farther on, to my terrace, as I call it.