She had hated meeting the cool, aloof expression of his eyes, and now, urged by some emotion of which she was, as yet, only dimly conscious, she capitulated.
"That's good," he said contentedly.

"And you might just as well give in now as later," he added, smiling.
"All the same," she protested, "you're a bully." "I know I am--I glory in it! But now, just to show that you really do mean to be friends again, will you let me row you across to Devil's Hood Island this afternoon?
You told me once that you wanted to go there." Sara considered the proposition for a moment, then nodded consent.
"Yes, I'll come," she said, "I should like to." Devil's Hood Island was a chip off the mainland which had managed to keep its head above water when the gradually encroaching sea had stolen yet another mile from the coast.

Sandy dunes, patched here and there with clumps of coarse, straggling rushes, sloped upward from the rock-strewn shore to a big crag that crowned its further side--a curious natural formation which had given the island its name.
It was shaped like a great overhanging hood, out of which, crudely suggested by the configuration of the rock, peered a diabolical face, weather-worn to the smoothness of polished marble.
April was still doing her best to please, with blue skies and soft fragrant airs, when Garth gave a final push-off to the _Betsy Anne_, and bent to his oars as she skimmed out over the top of the waves with her nose towards Devil's Hood Island.
Sara, comfortably ensconced amid a nest of cushions in the stern of the boat, pointed to a square-shaped basket of quite considerable dimensions, tucked away beneath one of the seats.
"What's that ?" she asked curiously.
Trent's eyes followed the direction of her glance.
"That?
Oh, that's our tea.

You didn't imagine I was going to starve you, did you?
I think we shall find that Mrs.Judson has provided all we want." Sara laughed across at him.
"What a thoughtful man you are!" she said gaily.

"Fancy a hermit remembering a woman's crucial need of tea." "Don't credit me with too much self-effacement!" he grinned.