"However, a plain fact settles it.

They went off together to see the ship." "Do you conclude from this that nothing whatever was said ?" I inquired.
"I should have liked to see the first meeting of their glances upstairs there," mused Marlow.

"And perhaps nothing was said.

But no man comes out of such a 'wrangle' (as Fyne called it) without showing some traces of it.

And you may be sure that a girl so bruised all over would feel the slightest touch of anything resembling coldness.