"See--I came to show you my pool--and tell you what you wanted to hear--and you--you--have crushed me like a beast--like a great rock-- See! down there--it is my pool!" She had not planned it like this.

She had intended to be smiling, even laughing, in this moment.

But McTaggart had spoiled them--her carefully made plans! And yet, as she pointed, the factor from Lac Bain looked for an instant over the edge of the chasm.

And then she laughed--laughed as she gave him a sudden shove from behind.
"And that is my answer, M'sieu le Facteur from Lac Bain!" she cried tauntingly as he plunged headlong into the deep pool between the rock walls..