And Desire, who was not lazy, might have fretted at the inaction had she believed him.

But she knew it was not laziness which had drawn certain new lines about the expeditioner's mouth and deepened the old ones on his forehead.

It was not laziness which lay behind the strained look in his eyes and the sudden return of his almost vanished limp.

These things are not symptoms of indolence.

They are symptoms of nerves.