" Well, we've been waiting for certain legal hours to arrive, to tell the truth, " she continued bashfully, and making her spirituous crimson look as much like a maiden blush as possible.
I hadn't thought too hard about it while I was in the process of writing it all out, but now that I was looking at it, my gaze bashfully avoided all the times I'd written her name.
Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies.