She was frightened.

She was frightened but she wanted it.

She had to have it but it frightened her.

Liz was terribly frightened, no one had ever touched her, but she thought, “He’s come to me finally.”

She was very frightened and didn’t know how he was going to go about things but she snuggled close to him.

She held herself stiff because she was so frightened and did not know anything else to do and then Jim held her tight against the chair and kissed her.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face, or that maybe his mother had been frightened or seen something, or that he had, maybe, bumped into something as a young child, but I finally had somebody verify the story from Spider Kelly.