He sat silent and nodded his head slightly, looking blank, then became cheerful, expostulated:
"Oh, I know we're not out of the woods yet—but, I say, you're not going to pieces, are you, the first good day we've had, and me with a wedding on my hands?... I say, this is unreasonable.... Poor girl, you're tired out, I know ... but what d'ye suppose the coachman thinks?"
"As if I cared!" But she sat up and straightened her bonnet. "We'd better go back now."
The sun was almost too warm on their bench.... And the water ... what a blue, soft and cloudy, a heavenly colour.... The softness and warmth of summer shed for a day over bare boughs and falling leaves....
XIV
They drove back rapidly. In the hall, Mary found Nora waiting for her. Nora, with flashing eyes and bright red spots on her cheek-bones, came up to her and said:
"There's a woman in there.... She wouldn't go away!"
"Where? A woman? What woman?"