After all, it really doesn't matter that the fish won't rise." She saw Weston's smile, which made it evident that he was equally content to drift quietly through the cool shadow with the sound of frothing water in his ears.

Then she wondered whether that was his only cause for satisfaction, and recognized that, if this were not the case, she had given him a lead.

He did not, however, seem very eager to make the most of it.
"We might get another fish in the broken water," he suggested.

"Would you like to try ?" "No," said Ida, "I wouldn't." She was a trifle displeased with him.

The man, she felt, might at least have ventured to agree with her, and there was, after all, no reason why he should insist on reminding her, in one way or another, that he was merely her canoe attendant, when she was willing to overlook that fact.