"Your eyes are a strange colour," he said, "they look as if there was a light behind them shining through."
They both laughed at that, and then Donelle whistled Nick to her and turned.
"I'm going to tell Mamsey," she said, "good bye."
Tom looked after her and his eyes grew hard and lonely.
"Good-bye," he repeated. "Good-bye," but the girl was out of sight.
That afternoon she told Jo, but she advanced toward her confession by so indirect a route that she mislead Mam'selle.
"I wish you'd tell me about Tom Gavot," she said.
"Why? What does Tom matter? Poor lad, he's got a beast of a father."
"Was his mother a beast?"
"No. She was a sad, hunted soul."