“Perhaps I have found one more,” she said, smiling, “and have been content to be without the others. Let go my hands, sir, at once.”
She drew a little away from him. His brain was in a whirl. He was scarcely sure of his sanity. Then:
“Will you sit down for a few minutes?” he asked. “There is something I want to say to you.”
She paused.
“I am a little tired,” she said. “Will another time do?”
“No,” he answered. “I am going away early to-morrow.”
She followed him without comment to the seat under the cedar tree. She leaned back and half closed her eyes. She was certainly a little pale.
“Well?”
“I have seen Dobell to-day.”
“Your employer?”