They all pressed round, as near as they dared, to look and admire; all but Elizabeth, who stood on her rock and did not stir.
"Where was it?
where was it ?" -- "When I first saw him, he was curled up on the rock very near to Miss Haye, but he slid down among the bushes before I could catch him.

We must take care when we come here now, for the mate must be somewhere." "_I'll_ never come here again," said Miss Cadwallader.

"O come! -- let us go!" "Did _you_ move me ?" said Elizabeth, with the air of a judge putting a query.
Winthrop looked up, and answered yes.
"Why didn't you ask me to move myself ?" "I would," said Winthrop calmly, -- "if I could have got word to the snake to keep quiet." Elizabeth did not know precisely what to say; her cousin was looking in astonishment, and she saw the corners of Rufus's mouth twitching; she shut her lips resolutely and followed the party to the boat.
The talking and laughing was general among them on the way home, with all but her; she was thinking.

She even forgot her strawberries for little Winifred, which she meant to have given her in full view of her cousin.

She held her basket on her lap, and looked at the water and didn't see the sunset.
The sun's proper setting was not to be seen, for he went down far behind Wut-a-qut-o.