"She's only told me one thing, Midget, and that came up by accident. Somehow brothers and fathers happened to be mentioned, and she said her father was killed in the war. Just that. She looked so queer when she said it, kind of fierce. She's got funny eyes--dark eyes, but not black--or hazel, there's a sort of tinge of red in them, and when she told me that, the red shone."
There was another pause, then Hughie remarked:
"We did see you, Pam."
"Who did?"
"Why don't you remember Miss Chance said that we saw you in the mist against the sky, and thought it was two Pams carrying something."
"I'd forgotten. Yes, you must have."
"I didn't say a word. She just thought she was mistaken afterwards. But I did rather wonder about it--especially when I felt pretty sure you couldn't have got up the Beak."
Pamela laughed.
"You have sense, Midget--heaps. Now, look here, you'd better go to bed, I'm sleepy."
Hughie slid off the bed.