She did not stir, there was not audible the merest rustle of her skirt, and her grip still constrained Willoughby.
"I wonder where in the world she can be," said Durrance to himself aloud, and he walked back and out of the enclosure.

Ethne did not free Captain Willoughby's arm until Durrance had disappeared from sight.
"That was a close shave," Willoughby said, when at last he was allowed to speak.

"Suppose that Durrance had sat down on the top of us ?" "Why suppose, since he did not ?" Ethne asked calmly.

"You have told me everything ?" "So far as I remember." "And all that you have told me happened in the spring ?" "The spring of last year," said Willoughby.
"Yes.

I want to ask you a question.