Ain't I her employer, her boss?
I'll show her--and Delaney, too.

It would be easy enough--and then Delaney can have her--if he wants her--after me." An evil light flashing from under his scowl, spread over his face.

The male instincts of possession, unreasoned, treacherous, oblique, came twisting to the surface.

All the lower nature of the man, ignorant of women, racked at one and the same time with enmity and desire, roused itself like a hideous and abominable beast.

And at the same moment, Hilma returned to her house, humming to herself as she walked, her white dress glowing with a shimmer of faint saffron light in the last ray of the after-glow.
A little after half-past seven, the first carry-all, bearing the druggist of Bonneville and his women-folk, arrived in front of the new barn.