There!
That isn't a very English thing to have said, is it?"
"Why did you say it?" she cried sharply. "You don't trust me. You
think--"
"I think nothing," I answered. "Only he's not like ordinary men. He's
so much younger than his age."
She gave me then the strangest look. The light seemed suddenly to die
out of her face; her eyes sought mine as though for help. There were
tears in them.
"Oh! I do want to be good to him!" she whispered. Then got up abruptly
and joined the others.
Late in the afternoon an automobile arrived and carried off most of
our party. I was compelled to remain for several hours, and intended
to drive, looking forward indeed to the long quiet silence of the
spring evening. Moved by some sudden impulse I suggested to Trenchard
that he should wait and drive with me: "The car will be very
crowded," I said, "and I think too that you'd like to see some of the
country properly. It's a lovely evening--only thirty versts.... Will
you wait and come with me?"
He agreed at once; he had been, all day, very quiet, watching, with
that rather clumsy expression of his, the expression of a dog who had
been taught by his master some tricks which he had half-forgotten and
would presently be expected to remember.
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