He looked at her as she leant forward, poking the fire, and expressing herself very clearly in phrases which bore distantly the taint of the platform, and he thought, "How absurd Mary would think me if she knew that I almost made up my mind to walk all the way to Chelsea in order to look at Katharine's windows.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
"I suppose you're one of the people who think we should all have professions," she said, rather distantly, as if feeling her way among the phantoms of an unknown world.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
All the Danforths treated Elsie rather distantly, but they were devoted to Mrs. Verdon.
"A Vanished Hand"
Sarah Doudney