"You mean you want to content yourself. You want to make her think you were right and she was wrong!"
"I have my pride!..."
"Aye, you have your pride, but I'm wondering would you rather have that than Eleanor?"
They sat down on the edge of the Lough and did not speak for a long time. John picked up pebbles and threw them into the water, while his Uncle gazed at the opposite shore. They sat there until it was time to go home to tea.
"We'd better be moving," said Uncle William. "Are you settled in your mind that you're going back to London?"
"Yes," said John.
VI
"Good-bye, Eleanor!" he said when the time came to catch the train to Belfast.
"Good-bye, John!"
He took hold of her hand and waited for her to offer her lips to him, but she did not offer them.