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The cheery good-nights of the Blacktons followed him. And Joanne's good-night was in her eyes following him until he was gone, filled with their entreaty and their fear. A hundred yards distant, where the trail split to lead to the camp of the engineers, there was a lantern on a pole. Here Aldous paused, out of sight of the Blackton bungalow, and in the dim light read again MacDonald's note.
It was expected that they would see land the next day, and so the concert partook of the nature of a farewell function. Everybody was shaking hands and saying good-bye to everybody else, and after many good wishes and good-nights our two tired and sleepy girls went to their stateroom. The next morning the girls spent in packing and getting ready to go ashore.
Then, with many good-nights, pressures of the hand, and auguries for the morrow, they had gone away into the cool darkness, silently towards their tent. They walked slowly, a little apart from each other. Domini looked up at the stars and saw among them the star of Liberty. Androvsky looked at her and saw all the stars in her face. When they reached the tent door they stopped on the warm earth.
This had been decided on, because Mr. Raymond was so kind about letting the children have the new hall he had fitted up. "Good-nights," and more "Merry Christmas" greetings were called back and forth, and then, as the hardware man left in his automobile, to go chugging through the storm, Bunny Brown and his sister Sue hung up their stockings for Santa Claus and went to bed.
And even as she did so she remembered this old sensation, the old reluctance to leave after-dinner quiet and relaxation for the riot of the nursery. Smiling, she carried the baby upstairs, and settled the chattering children in all the novelty of the bare wide rooms. Bert could hear the diminishing trills of talk and laughter, the repeated good-nights.
As for James Mottram, he had gone home at once, scarce waiting for good-nights. That evening Catherine remembered it now with a certain comfort she had been very kind to Charles; she was ever kind, but she had then been kinder than usual, and he had responded by becoming suddenly clearer in mind than she had known him to be for a long time.
To his intense relief Fong picked it up, dropped it into the pocket of his blouse, and without a word turned and left the room. No one had noticed the little scene. When Mayer came back the group was on its feet, Mark having made a move to go. There were handshakes and good-nights, and Burrage and Lorry moved forward up the long room.
She had looked extremely beautiful in that long, dark blue bedroom gown, reading Shakespeare. He wondered why she read Shakespeare. "By George, she has made a most interesting woman of herself!" Richard decided, opening his book again. "She ought to be right in the middle of things, that girl!" He was still reading when Nina and Amy came in, and yawned him good-nights from the library doorway.
She must leave great blanks in her discourse; but she trusted him to fill them up. Then there was another difficulty. She had no remains of tenderness left for him: not a filament. Unless she went warily he might find that out and be mortally offended. All this she battled with while the good-nights to Lancelot were saying upstairs.
"Bother!" said Wag, "there's the bell"; and he reached over and slid back the knobs in the frame, and the knight stopped. I was full of questions, but there was no time to put them. Good-nights had to be said quickly, and Father Wag saw me out of the front door. I set out on what seemed a considerable walk across the rough grass towards the enormous building in which I lived.
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