"I mean those Wakes people. There are thousands of them there now." He made a little motion of his head behind him. "It's better up here." Then, as still she did not reply, he asked her a direct question. "You didn't stay long in Llanyglo, did you?"
"I stay there one day," she answered. A scarcely perceptible movement of her forefinger accompanied the numeral.
"Oh, then of course that was the day I saw you. Did you see me?"
"No."
"You were standing at the pier-head, watching the moon rise."
Ynys did not deny this. Neither did she confirm it.
"Then you disappeared," John Willie continued, "and I couldn't find you again."
To this she replied after a moment.—"I went back to the house, and paid the Englishwoman, and then I came away. In the morning I arrive here."
"Do you mean you walked all night?"
"There is lit-tle night this time of the year."