"No go!" he exclaimed crossly. "Not clear enough! But on a fine day ye can see Axe and Axe Edge.... Finest view in the Five Towns."
The shrill cries of the footballers reached them.
"What a pity!" she sympathized eagerly. "I'm sure it must be splendid." His situation seemed extraordinarily tragic to her. His short hair, ruffled by the keen wind, was just like a boy's hair and somehow the sight of it touched her deeply.
He put his hands far into his pockets and drummed one foot on the ground.
"What brought ye up here?" he demanded, with his eyes on an invisible town of Axe.
She opened her hand-bag.
"I came to bring you this," she said, and offered him an envelope, which he took, wonderingly.
Then, when he had it in his hands, he said abruptly, angrily, "If it's that money, I won't take it."
"Yes you will."
"Has Louis sent ye?" This was the first mention of Louis, though he was well aware of the accident.