Jack, she reflected, was too much a man of the world to expect her to sit and mope alone.

She was apparently incapable of seeing the difference between that pastime and sitting on the sea-wall behind a large flowering currant-tree with a man who did not pretend to hide the fact that he was in love with her.

Some women are thus.
"I do not know if you have learnt much," he answered.

"But I have." "What have you learnt ?" she asked in a low voice, half-fascinated by the danger into which she knew that she was running.
"That I love you," he answered, standing squarely in front of her, and announcing the fact with a deliberate honesty which was rather startling.

"I was not sure of it before, so I stayed away from you for three weeks; but now I know for certain." "Oh, you mustn't say that!" She rose hastily and turned away from him.