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"I used to feel like that," she said, patting his shoulder, "but you soon get used to it. The fishermen aren't really cruel. They are the kindest men I know!" Ninian, having failed to solve his chess problem, got up from the table and stretched himself and yawned. "I'm going to bed, Quinny," he said. "Are you coming?" Henry rose and shook hands with Mrs. Graham. "Good-night," he said.
Gilbert and Ninian would fill his mind, and of course there would be Mrs. Graham and Mary. Mary! It was strange that he should have let Mary slip out of his thoughts and let Sheila slip into them. He had actually proposed to Mary and she had accepted him, and then he had left her and forgotten her because of Sheila.
Ninian thought this might have been out of compliment. Ina wished that Monona might have seen, confessed that the last part was so pretty that she herself would not look; and into Ina's eyes came their loveliest light. Lulu sat there, hearing the talk about the play. "Why couldn't I have said that?" she thought as the others spoke.
"Not always," Henry replied. "Nearly always," said Gilbert. "Uncle Peter made a mistake anyhow," Ninian said. He went to his room, pleading that he was tired, to write his letter to Sheila before dinner. As he was going upstairs, Mary began to descend, and he saw that her look was brighter. "Go back," she called to him, waving her hand as if to thrust him down the stairs again.
He didn't tell us 'til he'd got to the door, and then he damn well hooked it!" "He's been trapped," Gilbert said. "Females are always trapping chaps!..." "We ought to save him from himself!" Ninian stood up as he spoke. "But supposing he doesn't want to be saved?" Henry asked. "We'll save him all the same," Ninian answered. "Let's go on a deputation to him," Gilbert suggested.
But Ninian and Mary were too impatient to wait for the buggy, and so they set off together, leaving Henry to follow with Mrs. Graham. "Quinny'll drive you down, mater," Ninian said. Mrs. Graham turned to Henry.
He liked being at home with his father, but he also liked being at Rumpell's with Gilbert and Roger and Ninian, and now he felt that he would like to be at Boveyhayne with Mrs. Graham and Mary. "Perhaps you like people better than you like places," Mrs. Graham said. "I don't know," he replied. "I hadn't thought about that." "You must come again to Boveyhayne.
"I wish I weren't going to-morrow," he said, half reflectively. "So do I," Mary exclaimed. She was sitting on the floor beside him and he turned to look at her, a little startled by the suddenness of her speech. "I wish you weren't going," she said, sitting up and leaning against him as she was accustomed to lean against Ninian. "It's been great fun this Easter!"
Graham was the most beautiful woman in the world, and he had a great longing that she would draw him to her, as she drew Ninian, and put her arms about him and kiss him.
"Well done, Sholto MacKim well done, lad!" came from all the barrier, and even Ninian Halliburton cried: "Ye shall hae a silken doublet for that!" Then, recollecting himself, he added, "At little mair than cost price!" "God in heeven, 'tis bonny fechtin!" cried the man from Minnigaff. "Oh, if I could dirk the fause hound I wad dee happy!"
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