He swung himself off from her and made himself a rigid figure at the window. Dan stood in the doorway. He was trying to took as if she wasn't there.
"I say, aren't you coming to Reyburn?"
"No, I'm not."
"Why not?"
"I've got a headache."
"What?"
"Headache."
Outside on the flagstones she saw Nannie pass again and look in.
VIII.
An hour later she was sitting on the slope under the hill road of
Greffington Edge. He lay on his back beside her in the bracken. Lindley
Vickers.