"But why did you seek us in a perfectly strange wood-carver's shop?" asked Nan.
He laughed. "It does look as if I were making a house to house search for you, doesn't it? I had an errand here for one of my friends who left an order for some carving which has not been delivered as promised. Where are you stopping?"
"At the Fujiya."
"And all stood the journey well, I hope?"
"Very well." Nan was rather non-committal.
"And you stopped at Kamakura as you intended and went to Enoshima, I suppose."
"Yes, we did all that. We were two nights at Kamakura and have been here but one."
"If I had only known I could get the holiday, I might have been with you. I feel quite defrauded when I think of it. One of the other men was to have been off this week, but he found it would suit him better to get leave later, consequently I was offered the time in his place. May I go with you? Were you going to buy some carvings?"
"I was going to amuse myself by looking around. After being housed all morning I wanted to get a bit of the outside world." She gave no permission but he took it for granted and followed on as she went from one charming object to another. "I may as well be pleasant to him," reflected Nan, "for he may be my brother-in-law some day," and she began to unthaw a little. "You said you had not been well," she began. "I hope it was nothing serious and that you are feeling better."