You ought not to have come out to-day at all." "But I should like to finish the--" "Marty, I tell you to go home," said he, peremptorily.

"I can manage to keep the rest of them upright with a stick or something." She went away without saying any more.

When she had gone down the orchard a little distance she looked back.

Giles suddenly went after her.
"Marty, it was for your good that I was rough, you know.

But warm yourself in your own way, I don't care." When she had run off he fancied he discerned a woman's dress through the holly-bushes which divided the coppice from the road.