As often as they had met he had said "guatzena," and she had responded with "raua." But at every meeting his voice was softer, and hers more timid and trembling.

Each felt happy at the sight of the other, but neither thought of speaking, still less of making any advances.

Okoya was aware of the fact--which he felt deeply and keenly--that a wide breach, a seemingly impassable chasm, existed between him and the girl.

That gap was the relation in which he stood toward Tyope, the girl's father.

Or rather the relation in which he fancied himself to stand toward him.