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’All I mean,’ she said from her entrenchment, ‘is that I
doubt if you’ll find it’s been worth it, either of you!’
’One man’s meat is another man’s poison,’ he said, out of
the darkness. ‘But it’s meat an’ drink to me.
The lights flared out.
’Don’t make me wait in the morning,’
’No, I won’t. Goodnight!’
The car rose slowly on to the highroad, then slid swiftly
away, leaving the night silent.
Connie timidly took his arm, and they went down the
lane. He did not speak. At length she drew him to a stand-
still.
’Kiss me!’ she murmured.
’Nay, wait a bit! Let me simmer down,’ he said.
That amused her. She still kept hold of his arm, and they
went quickly down the lane, in silence. She was so glad to be
with him, just now. She shivered, knowing that Hilda might
have snatched her away. He was inscrutably silent.
When they were in the cottage again, she almost jumped
with pleasure, that she should be free of her sister.
’But you were horrid to Hilda,’ she said to him.
’She should ha’ been slapped in time.’
’But why? and she’s SO nice.’
He didn’t answer, went round doing the evening chores,
with a quiet, inevitable sort of motion. He was outwardly
angry, but not with her. So Connie felt. And his anger gave
him a peculiar handsomeness, an inwardness and glisten
that thrilled her and made her limbs go molten.
Still he took no notice of her.