half-didn't-hear

Updated: May 21, 2025

Then presently as he still stood and enveloped her, "Don't!" she thinned, her voice fining to a thread. "Answer me," he gloomed, still gazing into-and-through her. She half-heard half-didn't-hear him. Night was falling about them as they sat thus beside the river.

Stephen Leacock - Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy