"I have to finish this, " she muttered to the picture, her voice faltering.

Tell us exactly what happened and don't prevaricate.

She politely hummed and hawed and, after a lot of prompting, said she didn't like the haphazard way I arranged the food in the fridge.

He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw him examining the gate with great attention.

How many times, after an equivoque, after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip!