“‘It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. ‘You can pass through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. ‘For the love of Heaven!' she whispered, ‘get away from here before it is too late!'"
"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892.

In this excerpt, the author uses the literary element of