Then swiftly Doris collected her forces. "I suppose you know you are trespassing?" she said.
At that Hugh laid himself very suddenly down again in the bottom of the boat, and left her to fight her own battles.
The man on the bank looked down at his small assailant with a face of grim decorum. "No, I didn't know," he said.
"Well, you are," said Doris. "All this ground is private property. You can see for yourself. It's a cornfield."
The intruder's eyes travelled over the upstanding sheaves, passed gravely over the man in the punt, and came back to the girl. "Yes; I see," he said stolidly.
"Then don't you think you'd better go?" she said.
He put his hat on somewhat abruptly. "Yes. I think I had better," he said, and with that he turned on his heel and walked away through the stubble.
"Such impertinence!" said Doris, as she stepped down the bank to her companion.
"It was rather," said Hugh.
She looked at him somewhat sharply. "I don't see that there is anything to laugh at," she said.