The laugh irritated him.

He experienced a terrible revulsion of feeling, from the warmth and passion which had possessed him, to that humiliation, which he could not bear.
And just now a number of people came and took their stands close by, in a gossiping group.

Ida had half turned away, and was looking at the golden pools.

He tried to say something, but his tongue was dry, and the word would not come.

Presently, she faced him again, and said, in very much her ordinary tone-- "I was going to tell you that I have just had news from London, which makes it necessary for me to go back to-morrow.