Gerald swore that he hated the sight of them, and that he would throw them all into the sea if she went on wearing her beautiful eyes out over them.
Without looking up from her work, she coolly answered, "Why need you concern yourself about _my_ eyes, when you have a wife with such beautiful eyes ?"' Black Tom and Chloe and the boat were in waiting, and after a flurried scene they departed reluctantly without her.
"I never saw any one so changed as she is," said Rosa.

"She used to be so fond of excursions, and now she wants to work from morning till night." "She's a perverse, self-willed, capricious little puss.

She's been too much indulged.

She needs to be brought under discipline," said Gerald, angrily whipping off a blossom with his rattan as they walked toward the boat.
As soon as they were fairly off, Flora started on a second visit to the Welby plantation.

Tulee noticed all this in silence, and shook her head, as if thoughts were brooding there unsafe for utterance.
Mrs.Delano was bending over her writing-desk finishing a letter, when she perceived a wave of fragrance, and, looking up, she saw Flora on the threshold of the open door, with her arms full of flowers.
"Excuse me for interrupting you," said she, dropping one of her little quick courtesies, which seemed half frolic, half politeness.