As she bent impertinently over her book, she was an insult to man.

All Tommy's interest in her revived.

She infuriated him.
"Alice," he whispered.
"Do keep quiet till I finish this chapter," she begged lazily.
It brought him at once to the boiling-point.
"Alice!" he said fervently.
She had noticed the change in his voice.

"People are looking," she said, without moving a muscle.
There was some subtle flattery to him in the warning, but he could not ask for more, for just then Mrs.Jerry came in.

She was cloaked for the garden, and he had to go with her, sulkily.