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Major Colquhoun had been staying with a neighbouring county gentleman, but she found when she met him again at afternoon tea that her father had persuaded him to come to Fraylingay for some shooting. He was to go back that night, and return to them the following Tuesday. Evadne heard of the arrangement in silence, and unsurprised.
He thinks perhaps he ought to leave Ashley that he loves so much and go down to live where this horrid cousin lives. . . ." Her husband's astonishment at this was as great as she could have desired. None of Neale's usual, unsurprised acceptance of everything that happened as being in the nature of things, which occasionally so rubbed her the wrong way, and seemed to her so wilfully phlegmatic.
Presently he started walking up and down the room, nervous as a caged lion, eyes fixed on space or on something within, while Sharlee stood in the doorway watching him casually and unsurprised, as though just this sort of thing took place in her little parlor regularly, seven nights a week. "Go ahead! Go ahead!" he broke out abruptly, coming to a halt. "Pitch into me. Do it for all you're worth.
The next thing he said, in his gentle, unsurprised voice, was to the bare-headed figure that smiled up at him from the road. "You, Margery?... What a game. But what have you done with the Hebrew? Oh, that's Stephen, isn't it. That accounts for it: but how did he get you? I say, you can't have slept anywhere; there's been nowhere, for miles.
Three fives he found in all, and two sticks over; and thus, at the end of it, he possessed as definite a knowledge of the number of sticks as would be possessed by the average white man by means of the single number seventeen. More it was, far more, than his avarice had demanded. Yet he was unsurprised. Nothing white men did could surprise.
"I love you, little girl," he said simply, "and I want you to marry me some day will you, June?" She was unsurprised but she flushed under his hungry eyes, and the little cross throbbed at her throat. "SOME day-not NOW," she thought, and then with equal simplicity: "Yes, Jack." "And if you should love somebody else more, you'll tell me right away won't you, June?"
By being so quiet, so unsurprised and so simple she had managed to brush away the conventions and make him feel that to seek to be alone was the natural thing for two old friends who had so much to say to each other....
For Charlotte had come in with a platter, and Nan turned about, peacocking before her unsurprised gaze. "I found it up attic." "It's real pretty," said Charlotte. "Them scant things they're wearin' now, they ain't to be thought of in the same day." It was a game she knew she was to have entirely alone.
This year, too, is to many lonely hearts a redeemer; and no heavens will be darkly clouded when it is over, but still stars will shine unsurprised.
"It is he," she replied, apparently unsurprised. "I recognize him perfectly." With a look of concentrated rage Maurice drew his piece to his shoulder and covered him. "The cousin Ah! sure as there is a God in heaven he shall pay for Weiss." But, quivering with excitement, she jumped to her feet and knocked up the weapon, whose charge was wasted on the air.
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