“Where is the nurse, Cicely?” Paul asked, in his usual tone.
“Do you mean that woman whom you have put over me? She has gone for a walk.”
“And Porley?”
“You will find Porley at the big pine.”
“What is she doing there?”
“I didn’t want her about, so I tied her to the trunk,” Cicely answered. “Probably she is frightened,” she added, calmly.
“Go and find her,” said Eve to Paul. “I will stay here.”
“Have nothing to do with Paul Tennant, Eve,” Cicely remarked. “He is almost a murderer. He didn’t go to his brother; he let him die alone.”
“I shall not leave you,” said Paul, looking at Eve’s white cheeks.
“Have you fallen in love with each other?” asked Cicely. “It needed only that.”