"Let us hurry while there is time," urged Motauri, thickly. "No one has seen or heard us yet. His boat-shed is open. We are safe!"
"Go away from me!" said Miss Matilda.
"What do you say?" he stammered. "Come. Nobody will stop us. Nobody will know anything, about us—"
She fended him off with a gesture of instinctive loathing....
"Please go—"
"But you cannot stay here! It would be a very evil thing for you if you were found in this house. It must never be known you were here at all."
"Don't touch me!" That seemed the only important thing.
"Hokoolele—what of the golden chain of love between us? Come with me now!"
"I was mad. I was blind. It is judgment!"
He regarded her sorrowfully, but sternly too.