He held them with his own.
The two streams met and mingled in mysterious communion that thrilled him till he trembled faintly.
He was the first to turn away.
"You look just all right," he said.
She was a changed girl. The restraint had left her. A new life danced within her. She was quivering with it, almost communicative.
"I feel it," she answered joyously. "I'm off till ten. I'm going away back home to Dad and Mother. I most in general doos o Sadadays if I gets off."
She was broadening her speech again, as though to throw off the corrupting town, and draw near once more to the country which had bred her.
He heard her with delight; and answered her easily and in kind.
"Auston, aren't it?" he asked.
She eyed him slyly, taking his humour, and nodded.