half-exultantly

Updated: August 11, 2026

She laughed, half-exultantly, half-dubiously, peeping at him through her lowered lashes. "I wonder if you'll still say that when when you've seen my mother," she murmured. He kissed her again, kissed anew the dimples that showed and vanished so alluringly. "You will see presently, my Daphne," he said. "But I'm going to have you, you know. That's quite understood, isn't it?"

Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell - Greatheart