When you realize that I thought your brother and probably yourself were involved in it to the full you'll understand, perhaps, why I didn't greet you with overmuch cordiality.

Will you listen ?" She nodded her head, wordless, not trusting her voice to speak further.

And she sank back into the seat she had quitted.
Brice seated himself on the thwart near her, and began to speak, while the boat, its power still shut off bobbed lazily on a lazier sea.
Tersely, yet omitting no detail except that of his talk with Davy, he told of the afternoon's events.

She heard, wide-eyed and breathing fast.

But she made no interruption, except when he came to the episode of the moccasins she cried aloud in horror, and caught unconsciously his lacerated hand between her own warm palms.
The clasp of her fingers, unintentional as it was, sent a strange thrill through the man, and, for an instant, he wavered in his recital.