She bowed and went toward a house, humming a merry air, while he pretended to light a cigarette made from a tobacco of which he was very fond.

Till very late that night I heard him walking up and down the deck of the house-boat, his friend shouting to him not to be an ass.

Me he had flung fiercely on the floor of the house-boat.

About midnight he came downstairs, his face white, and, snatching me up, put me in his pocket.

Again we went into the punt, and he pushed it within sight of the garden.