"Anyway, she's quite well and strong now." "She's found a home again.

That's a great comfort to all her mother's old friends." Sorell smiled upon his companion; the sensitive kindness in his own nature appealing to the natural pity in hers.
But Alice made no reply; and he dropped the subject.
They walked across the park, under a wide summer sky, towards the winding river, and the low blue hills beyond it.

At the Cherwell boat-house they found the two boats, with four or five men, and Nora, as usual, taking charge of everything, at least till Herbert Pryce should appear.
Connie was just stepping into the foremost boat, assisted by Herbert Pryce, who was in his shirt-sleeves, while Lord Meyrick and another Marmion man were already in the boat.
"Sorell, will you stroke the other boat ?" said Pryce, "and Miss Nora, will you have a cushion in the bows?
Now I think we're made up.

No--we want another lady.

And running his eyes over those still standing on the bank, he called a plump little woman, the wife of a Llandaff tutor, who had been walking with Mrs.Hooper.
"Mrs.Maddison, will you come with us?
I think that will about trim us." Mrs.Maddison obeyed him with alacrity, and the first boat pushed off.
Mrs.Hooper, Alice, Sorell, two St.Cyprian undergraduates and Nora's girl friend, Miss Watson, followed in the second.
Then, while the June evening broadened and declined, the party wound in and out of the curves of the Cherwell.