She took no notice of him.

She just stooped and picked up the ball and carried it back to her chair.

She tossed it down on the grass, and sat down again without a word, quaking with many inward emotions, but outwardly as calm as ever.

What Professor van Huysman said to himself when he saw this will be better left to himself.
It might have been expected that the miracle, or at least the extraordinary defiance of physical law which had been accomplished by Phadrig, would have produced something like consternation among the bulk of the spectators.

It did nothing of the sort.