“Themselves.”
She flushed at the correction and a dogged sulky expression came into her eyes. She nibbled at the grass stalk until it disappeared into her mouth. For a moment or two she sat plucking at her lower lip with her right finger and thumb. Through her teeth she said:
“I will do it.”
Contemptuously, with admirable precision, she spat out the grass stalk against the trunk of a tree.
“Did you ever see a lady do that? You never did. You’ll see me do things you’ve never seen a lady do. You’ll see me—— But you’ve got to teach me first. You’ll teach me, won’t you? . . . You won’t go away until you’ve taught me? You won’t go away?”
“You’re the most extraordinary young woman I ever met in my life.”
“Did you come to uncle because of me?”
“Eh?”
He stared at her. The idea had not presented itself to him before. She was not going to allow him to escape it.