The noise in the street became suddenly louder, so I knew that some one in front of the window had moved aside.
I guessed that it was you." Their words were thus not perhaps the most customary greeting between a couple meeting on the first occasion after they have become engaged, but they served to hinder embarrassment.

Ethne shrank from any perfunctory expression of regret, knowing that there was no need for it, and Durrance had no wish to hear it.

For there were many things which these two understood each other well enough to take as said.

They did no more than shake hands when they had spoken, and Ethne moved back into the room.
"I will give you some tea," she said, "then we can talk." "Yes, we must have a talk, mustn't we ?" Durrance answered seriously.

He threw off his serious air, however, and chatted with good humour about the details of his journey home.