Marion had turned her back upon her taunting interrogator, and was moving towards the door-to avoid the unpleasantness of any further parley with one whose words, as well as actions, had already given her so much pain.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
While Tristram was perpending how best to begin, his interrogator spoke again: Speak out.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
There was something in the assured tone of these few words that either overawed or repressed every rising feeling of the waiter, for his interrogator; for, silently handing his coffee and the newspaper, he left the room; not, however, without bestowing a parting glance so full of terror and dismay that our friend was obliged to smile at it.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)