MRS. MORLAND. Mary Rose!
MR. MORLAND. She waved to me and went on sketching. I—I waved back to her. I got into the boat and rowed across just in the old way, except that I sat facing her, so that I could see her all the time. When I landed, the first thing she said to me was, ‘Why did you row in that funny way, Dad?’ Then I saw at once that she didn’t know anything had happened.
SIMON. Mr. Morland! How could—? Where did she say she had been?
MRS. MORLAND. She didn’t know she had been anywhere, Simon.
MR. MORLAND. She thought I had just come for her at the usual time.
SIMON. Twenty days. You mean she had been on the island all that time?
MR. MORLAND. We don’t know.
MRS. MORLAND. James brought her back to me just the same merry unselfconscious girl, with no idea that she had been away from me for more than an hour or two.
SIMON. But when you told her——
MRS. MORLAND. We never told her; she doesn’t know now.