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Updated: June 9, 2025
"I'm what you want me to be," he spoke a little sadly but very tenderly. "It'll never make any difference to me what you do or what you don't do; there'll never be any change in me." She let her fingers lie in his clasp, but her glance was absent now, her thoughts had flown again to Seagreave.
She wondered what Seagreave would think of her when he saw her; she would be a vision far more brilliant than any spirit of the autumn woods, and she would wear her emeralds again, the emeralds for which Bob Flick had squandered a fortune.
It was the trunks and the outspreading branches of the same pine trees which held Seagreave. She took a second to draw a long breath, and then, holding cautiously to a little branch, she bent over him.
You will tell me, and tell me now." "I'll be hanged first," she flashed the words at him as a snake darts its fangs. "And I'll be hanged if you'll ask her such questions before me," cried Seagreave, speaking for the first time. Her father looked at him with a slow and bitter smile, then he gave a little nod of acrid comprehension.
Come." He threw open the cabin door. But if Pearl heard him she gave no sign, but still leaned weakly, almost inertly, against the walls of the cabin, gazing down the hillside with dazed and still frightened eyes. Seeing her condition, Seagreave wasted no more words, but lifted her in his arms and carried her into the room they had so recently left.
Seagreave had left, but she could hear him moving about in the next room, near at hand if she needed him. He was evidently bringing in some logs for the fire. "As if nothing had happened," she muttered, "and things will go on just the same. We shall eat; we shall sleep. How can it be?" She got up and began to walk up and down the room.
As for her, she was unfeignedly glad to see him. "I sure have worried a lot about you this winter, Pearl," he said to her that evening as they two sat a little apart from the rest, Gallito, José, Hugh and Seagreave, who all clustered about the fire, while Pearl, as usual, had drawn her chair within the warm gloom of the pine-scented shadow. "Ain't you silly!"
"Considering the argument you stand ready to offer," he said, "there's nothing to do but to apologize my humblest on all three counts. I had hoped that you'd remember me and be willing to introduce me to your friend." He turned a cynical and evil glance upon Seagreave, who was talking to some one a few feet away.
When she returned to the cabin she found Seagreave sitting in his chair by the hearth as if he had not moved during the night; his haggard gaze was fixed on the dead ashes of the fire. Without speaking to him, Pearl stooped down and, with some paper and bits of wood, began to build up a blaze again.
But now," she turned to Seagreave, her head lifted higher yet in the glory of joy and pride, "I'm not going to leave Colina yet, and I'm not going to sign up with Sweeney; am I, Harry?" Seagreave passed her father and was beside her in two strides. "You're going to do as you please," he said.
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