"Oh, but I know."
"Oh, no, you don't," said Tom.
Suddenly Evan rose, opened the carriage door, got out, shut it, and lifted his hat.
"Good-bye," said Mrs. Cormack, smiling merrily.
"Good-bye. Thanks," said Evan, with unchanged melancholy, and, with another nod to Tom, he walked round to the path and strode quickly away.
"How absurd!" said she.
"Not at all. I like to see him honest about it. He's hard hit—and he's not ashamed of it."
"Oh, well," said Mrs. Cormack, shrugging the subject away in weariness of it. "And how do you stand banishment? Will you get in?"
"Yes, if you won't assume——"
"Too great familiarity, Mr. Loring?"