She resented the look in his eyes.
"I have no doubt I shall like it very much," she said, removing her hand as speedily as possible.
"You like to be--a farmer's wife ?" questioned Piet, still freely staring.
She resented this question also, but she had to respond to it.

"It is what I came out for," she said.
"You do not look like a farmer's wife," said Piet.
Sylvia stiffened.
"Give him a little rope!" said Burke.

"He doesn't know much.

Sit down! I'll get him on the move directly." She sat down not very willingly, and he resumed his talk with Vreiboom in Dutch, lounging against the wall.

Sylvia sat quite silent, her eyes upon the glowing sky and the far-away hills.