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hilip slept like a log and awoke with a start to find Har-
Pold tickling his face with a feather. There was a shout
of delight when he opened his eyes. He was drunken with
sleep.
‘Come on, lazybones,’ said Jane. ‘Sally says she won’t wait
for you unless you hurry up.’
Then he remembered what had happened. His heart sank,
and, half out of bed already, he stopped; he did not know how
he was going to face her; he was overwhelmed with a sud-
den rush of self-reproach, and bitterly, bitterly, he regretted
what he had done. What would she say to him that morn-
ing? He dreaded meeting her, and he asked himself how he
could have been such a fool. But the children gave him no
time; Edward took his bathing-drawers and his towel, Ath-
elstan tore the bed-clothes away; and in three minutes they
all clattered down into the road. Sally gave him a smile. It
was as sweet and innocent as it had ever been.
‘You do take a time to dress yourself,’ she said. ‘I thought
you was never coming.’
There was not a particle of difference in her manner. He
had expected some change, subtle or abrupt; he fancied that
there would be shame in the way she treated him, or an-
ger, or perhaps some increase of familiarity; but there was
nothing. She was exactly the same as before. They walked

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