It always seems to me that strength is essential to perfect grace, and one finds both, and sweetness unexcelled, out here in Canada." He rose, and, taking up the rod, straightened the gut trace.
"There is a big trout rising in the slack," he said.

"I think you could cast from the bank." Ida took the rod from him, and a little thrill of satisfaction ran through her as she poised herself upon a jutting stone at the water's edge.

He had spoken vaguely, and she would have resented any undue explicitness, but she had watched his face, and it had set her doubts at rest.

If any English girl had ever looked upon this man with favor, which seemed probable, it was evident that he had long ago forgotten her; and she fancied that if he had once been stirred to passion he was not a man who would lightly forget.

Then she set about casting for the trout, which rose again; for, in view of her encounters with Mrs.
Kinnaird, it seemed advisable to take a few fish back with her, if only to show how she had spent the time.
At the third cast there was a splash and a sudden silvery gleam, and a tightening of the line.