Just now you were foolish enough to tempt them while you were nervous, or worried, or listless.

Take my word for it, it's a great mistake.

There is no more use fighting them, as I tell Mr.Peyton, than of fighting the people born under them.

I have my own opinion that these winds were sent only to stir this lazy race of mongrels into activity, but they are enough to drive us Anglo-Saxons into nervous frenzy.

Don't you think so?
But you are young and energetic, and perhaps you are not affected by them." She spoke pleasantly and playfully, yet with a certain nervous tension of voice and manner that seemed to illustrate her theory.