In vain she watched for a chance.

It did not come.

Once, when her mother's head was turned, she glanced at August.

But he was at that moment listening or trying to listen to one of Jonas Harrison's remarks.

And August, who did not understand the circumstances, was only able to account for her apparent coldness on the theory suggested by Andrew's universal unbelief in women, or by supposing that when she understood his innocent remark about Andrew's disappointment to refer to her mother, she had taken offense at it.