We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.