So's the girl, I think." Barbara laughed.

"I didn't play up; I liked the people.

The excursion was delightful; I've enjoyed it all." Lister saw she was sincere and thrilled.

He had begun to think he ought not to have suggested the adventure, but he was not sorry now; Barbara was not bothered by ridiculous conventions.

She talked gayly while the cars rolled along beside the warehouse walls, but when they got down at the station she stopped in the middle of a sentence.