It is not improbable (though my memory is not clear on the point) that part of the strong interest we undoubtedly felt on the first night arose from the hope that Lord Windermere's seemingly unaccountable conduct might be satisfactorily accounted for.

It was, perhaps, strangely unaccountable that she should have chosen to invoke his help who was little more than a casual acquaintance; still, he argued as he reviewed the situation, she had probably been drawn to him as the one man on the spot who was likely to be of use to them.

The creature seemed somehow to melt away into him, almost as though it belonged to him and were a part of himself, but in the same instantthat instant of extraordinary confusion and terror in my mindit seemed to pass over and behind him, and, in some utterly unaccountable fashion, it was gone.

I felt a sudden unaccountable impulse to snatch up the volume of Rabelais, to face my father again, weapon or no weapon, to show her "Come, captain," said Mademoiselle gently.

By the favour of an ecclesiastical friend I was allowed to wander alone in a totally unaccountable paradise of gardens that lies to the east of the Cathedral.