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They tried hard to comfort her; and in trying, learned to love her; they could not help it, seeing how she clung, to them and put her arms about their necks and found-no solace but in their kind eyes and comforting words: There was a question in both their hearts a question that rose up and asserted itself with more and more pertinacity as the hours wore on but both hesitated to give it voice both kept silence and waited.
Mark Twain - The Gilded Age: A tale of today

They tried hard to comfort her; and in trying, learned to love her; they could not help it, seeing how she clung, to them and put her arms about their necks and found-no solace but in their kind eyes and comforting words: There was a question in both their hearts a question that rose up and asserted itself with more and more pertinacity as the hours wore on but both hesitated to give it voice both kept silence and waited.
Mark Twain - The Gilded Age, Part 1.
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