“And the niggers might have been hidden just there. But I don’t think we can tell exactly where our boat was; Cicely doesn’t remember—I have asked her.”
“Miss Bruce may have clearer ideas.”
“No; Eve seems to have a greater confusion about it than Cicely even; she cannot speak of it clearly at all.”
“Yes, I have noticed that,” said Paul.
“I suppose it is because, at the last, she had it all to do; she is a brave woman.”
Paul was silent.
“Don’t you think so?” said the judge.
“I wasn’t there. I don’t know what she did.”
“You’re all alike, you young men; she’s too much for you,” said the judge, with a chuckle.
“Why too much? She seems to me very glum and shy. When you say that we are all alike, do you mean that Ferdie didn’t admire her, either? Yet Ferdie is liberal in his tastes,” said the elder brother, smiling.