Then, above the edge of the dune, showed Seth's head and arm.

He beckoned to her.

She walked briskly across the intervening space, turned the ragged, grass-grown corner of the knoll and disappeared, also.

Brown, scarcely believing his eyes, waited and watched, but he saw no more.

Neither Seth nor the housekeeper came out from behind that dune.
But the substitute assistant had seen enough--quite enough.