He smiled over his load with anxious eyes upon our faces.
"Ten separate parcels," he said, appealing for Rachel's sympathy. "I'm doing my best not to complain."
And rather adroitly he contrived to let two of them slip, and captured Rachel to assist him.
He didn't relinquish her again.
§ 5
The Fürstin and I followed them along the broad, pleasant, tree-lined street towards the railway station.
"A boy of that age ought not to marry a girl of that age," said the Fürstin, breaking a silence.
I didn't answer.
"Well?" she said, domineering.
"My dear cousin," I said, "I know all that you have in your mind. I admit—I covet her. You can't make me more jealous than I am. She's clean and sweet—it is marvellous how the God of the rest of the world can have made a thing so brave and honest and wonderful. She's better than flowers. But I think I'm going away to-night, nevertheless."