Pyne, with the guilty feeling of a detected villian, explained to Constance how the cup might be rescued.
"I shall keep a close eye on you in future," she announced as they went below.
"Do," he said. "That is all I ask for."
"I am a very strict person," she went on. "Dad always encouraged us in the sailor's idea of implicit obedience."
"Kick me. It will make me feel good," he answered.
Entering the second bed-room, where Elsie and Mamie were seated contentedly on the floor, she stooped and kissed them. And not a word did she say to Enid as to the reason why Mr. Pyne should be served with a second breakfast. She knew that any parade of his unselfishness would hurt him, and he, on his part, gave her unspoken thanks for her thought.
Conversation without words is an art understood only by master-minds and lovers, so these two were either exceptionally clever persons or developing traits of a more common genus—perhaps both.