I took him for a flash overseer, sporting his salary, and I was as thick as you like with him.
And 'Matey,' says I, (you see I was familiar, he seemed such a jolly sort of bird), 'Matey, what station are you on ?' 'Maraganoa,' says he.
'So,' says I, 'you're rather young there, ain't you?
I was by there a fortnight ago.' He saw he'd made a wrong move, and made it worse.

'I mean,' says he, 'Maraganoa on the Clarence side.' 'Ah!' says I, 'in the Cedar country ?' 'Precisely,' says he.

And there we sat drinking together, and I had no more notion of its being him than you would have had." She sat still listening to him, eating nothing.

Lee's words outside had, she knew not why, struck a chill into her heart, and as she listened to Tom's story, although she could make nothing of it, she felt as though getting colder and colder.

She shivered, although the night was hot.