I will meet Dick an' tell him.' 'Tell him it is too late, but I am grateful all the same--very, very grateful.' 'Yes, yes.Come.You are weary; you'll be stronger to-morrow an' braver.' He led her away, and they walked across the flat and through the paddock in silence.

It seemed to Harry that she had forgotten their avowals of love.

Her attitude frightened him, he dreaded lest she should be on the eve of a serious illness; he had sore misgivings and tortured himself with many doubts.

Her words rang in his head with damnable iteration: 'I deceived them all.

I lied to every body.' Maori welcomed them under the firs, capering heavily and putting himself very much in the way, but with the best intentions.