half-expectant

Updated: May 28, 2025

But she kept looking around her, with a half-frightened, half-expectant glance, all the way. For several days the halting step was not heard again, and Louise had nearly forgotten her fright, when one morning, about six o'clock, when Peter was out getting up his lobster pots, Louise, with her head still buried in the bed-clothes, suddenly heard or thought she heard the sound again.

S. Elizabeth Hall - A Loose End and Other Stories