Lingard was not unkind, he was ever careful of her comfort in all little ways, but when they were alone together-and this happened strangely seldom-he would fall into long silences, as if unaware that she, his love, was there.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
In these days Peter Junior would not allow the long silences to occur that used often to cast a gloom over the meals in his boyhood.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
You have been most patient with my silences-always-will you be patient still-and-understand?
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine