She still looked beside and around him.
“Do you know,” she said, “it is perfectly true. I have not once dared to venture in here before, though never actually told not to. But that is all one, I think. What an extraordinary litter!”
She had not ventured! and with the inducement of her petrifying surroundings! She was uninquisitive, then—“an excellent thing in woman.”
“Since there is no veto,” he said, incomparably audacious, “supposing we explore together?”
She looked at him admiringly.
“I should like to.” She hesitated.
“June!” cried Mrs. Gaunt.
“And I will,” said the girl.
But the housekeeper, content, it appeared, with her protest, stood, not uninterested in the subsequent investigation.
“Do you not find all this a little remote, a little lifeless sometimes, Miss Robin?” said the clergyman, greatly daring.