"I want to talk to you," and he was so persistent that it fretted her, and she asked with a touch of impatience, "Harry Hatton, have you yet to learn that when a woman wants to be by herself she is expecting better company than you can give her ?" For a few moments the young men were silent.

Mrs.Hatton took so much vitality out of the room with her that the level of the atmosphere was sensibly disturbed, and had to be readjusted before it was comfortably useful.

John sat still during this period.

His sight was inward and consequently his eyes were dropped.

Harry was restless, his sight was outward and his eyes far-seeking.