So what was the use of my joining in ?" She made no reply.
"You didn't mind, did you ?" he asked carelessly.
"No." "Oh, all right," he nodded, not feeling much relieved.
The strange blind anger still possessed her.

She lay there immobile, expressionless, enduring it, not trying even to think why; yet her anger was rising against him, and it surged, receded helplessly, flushed her veins again till they tingled.

But her lids remained closed; the lashes rested softly on the curve of her cheeks; not a tremor touched her face.
"I am wondering whether you are feeling all right," he ventured uneasily, conscious of the tension between them.
With an effort she took command of herself.
"The sun was rather hot.

It's a headache; I walked back by the road." "_With_ the faithful one ?" "No," she said evenly, "Mr.Grandcourt remained to fish." "He went to worship and remained to fish," said Duane, laughing.

The girl lifted her face to look at him--a white little face so strange that the humour died out in his eyes.
"He's a good deal of a man," she said.