Besides, if you really thought I had forgotten, you'd have been angry." "How d'you know I'm not angry now ?" Charnock laughed.

"When you're angry everybody in the neighborhood knows." This was true.

Sadie was young, but there was something imperious about her.

She had a strong will, and when it was thwarted was subject to fits of rage.

Reserve was not among her virtues, and Charnock's languid carelessness sometimes attracted and sometimes annoyed her.