They sat in silence.
"The bell's run fifteen minutes and they're not down," said Helen at length.
When they appeared, St.John explained why it had been necessary for him to come to luncheon.

He imitated Evelyn's enthusiastic tone as she confronted him in the smoking-room.

"She thinks there can be nothing _quite_ so thrilling as mathematics, so I've lent her a large work in two volumes.

It'll be interesting to see what she makes of it." Rachel could now afford to laugh at him.

She reminded him of Gibbon; she had the first volume somewhere still; if he were undertaking the education of Evelyn, that surely was the test; or she had heard that Burke, upon the American Rebellion--Evelyn ought to read them both simultaneously.