Ida, however, did nothing of the kind.

She stopped and held out her hand while she looked at him with gracious composure.

It was impossible for him to know that this had cost her a certain effort.
"Where have you come from?
We certainly didn't expect to see you here," she said.
"From Winnipeg.

That is, immediately," said Weston, and added, "I hired out to bring a draft of cattle." Ida, who was quite aware that the tending of cattle on trains was not a well-paid occupation, and was usually adopted only by those who desired to save the cost of a ticket, fancied that she understood why he mentioned this, and was not sure that she was pleased.

It was, as she recognized, the man's unreasonable pride which impelled him to thrust facts of that kind into the foreground.