She lay unresponsive, trembling in his arms, her eyes full of a wild, piteous questioning....
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
She stood before him now, her heart hardened in that strange way which all lovers have, and which must forever remain inexplicable, seemingly as unresponsive as a being of marble.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
He had not heard those words now, in the triumph of having her back again, his as she had been on the first day of their marriage, did not feel her body unresponsive, her hands cold, nor did he see the appeal, wild and desperate, in her eyes....
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole