'Don't mind me! I didn't mean it! Please, please--' He did not know what he was saying, and the words were too low and confused to reach her ears; but she went up the garden path with an elate bird in her heart singing such a song of gladness that the world was filled with its music, and the girl knew its meaning and yet wondered at it.
Harry stood nervously gripping the pickets of the gate and gazed after her, and continued gazing for many minutes when she had gone.

Then he swung off into the bush, walking rapidly, and was glad in a stern rebellious way--glad in spite of his mission, in spite of his brother, in spite of and defiance of every thing..