"Never mind! You must want your lunch very badly, or do you want to talk to Mr.Ducaine ?" "Next to the walk up to the house with you," he answered, "I think that I want my lunch more than anything in the world." Lady Angela smiled her farewells at me, and Ray nodded curtly.

I watched them pass through the plantation and stroll across the Park.
There was nothing very loverlike in their attitude.

Ray seemed scarcely to be glancing towards his companion; Lady Angela had the air of one absorbed in thought.

I watched them until they disappeared, and then I entered my own abode and sat down mechanically before the lunch which Grooton had prepared.

I ate and drank as one in a dream.