How could you make us so unhappy ?" She drew her hands away coldly.
"I fancy that my stepmother," she said, "will have survived my absence.
I was caught in a storm.

I expect that your brother has already told you about it." He looked from one to the other.
"So you have told her, Andrew," he said simply.
Andrew nodded.

The three walked up toward the house in somewhat constrained silence.

She was trying her hardest to make Andrew look at her, and he was trying his hardest to resist.

The Princess came out to them.