Mavis bowed.
"May I speak to you a moment?" he asked, after glancing at Miss Toombs, and furtively lifting his hat to this person.
Mavis joined him.
"What has become of you all this time?"
"I've been working in London."
"I've often thought of you. What are you doing now?"
"I'm looking for something to do."
"I suppose you'd never care to come back and work for me in Melkbridge?"
"Nothing I should like better," remarked Mavis, as her heart leapt.
They talked for two or three minutes longer, when, the train being on the point of starting, Devitt said: