Jack shook his head.
'No,' said the captain, 'I reckon not. You ain't on speaking terms. Communication made must be through Eliza Jose.'
CHAPTER XXXVII
CONFIDENCES
Thus it came about that Jack Rattenbury visited Bath, and the spring chickens arrived in the kitchen of the establishment of Mrs. Tomkin-Jones.
After the meeting at the exit from Sydney Gardens, and when Jack had departed, Winefred remained standing where he had left her, motionless, looking before her, but seeing nothing.
What fiend had possessed her, that she should have struck at him so cruelly?
At the moment she had not intended to hurt, but the words had come to her lips before she had thought what to say, and had been launched unconsidered.
She was roused by her father addressing her.