Shall we ?" He coloured up as he took her hand in his; then they both laughed at the very vigorous shake.
"What a horribly unfriendly creature you _can_ be," she said.

"Never a greeting, never even a formal expression of pleasure at my return--" "You have not _returned_!" he said, smiling; "you have been with me every moment, Eileen." "What a pretty tribute!" she exclaimed; "I am beginning to recognise traces of my training after all.

And it is high time, Captain Selwyn, because I was half convinced that you had escaped to the woods again.
What, if you please, have you been doing in town since I paroled you?
Nothing?
Oh, it's very likely.

You're probably too ashamed to tell me.
Now note the difference between us; _I_ have been madly tearing over turf and dune, up hills, down hillocks, along headlands, shores, and shingle; and I had the happiness of being half-frozen in the surf before Nina learned of it and stopped me.

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