But Gerald looked back as he rowed, beholding her, forgetting what he was doing.
'Aren't we going too much to the left ?' sang Hermione, as she sat ignored under her coloured parasol.
Gerald looked round without replying, the oars balanced and glancing in the sun.
'I think it's all right,' he said good-humouredly, beginning to row again without thinking of what he was doing.

And Hermione disliked him extremely for his good-humoured obliviousness, she was nullified, she could not regain ascendancy..