"I began to think you were quite lost.

I have been right down the Kloof after you, and got a nasty fall over it." "It is very good of you," she said in a low voice, and again their eyes met, and again her glance thrilled him.

There was such a wonderful light in Jess's eyes that night.
Half an hour afterwards they sat down as usual to supper.

Bessie did not put in an appearance till it was a quarter over, and then sat very silent through it.

Jess narrated her adventure in the Kloof, and everybody listened, but nobody said much.