Naturally, therefore, the call was anything but a joy and comfort to either one.
Arkwright was nervous, gloomy, and abnormally gay by turns.

Alice was nervous and abnormally gay all the time.

Then they said good-by and Arkwright went away.

He sailed the next day, and Alice settled down to the summer of study and hard work she had laid out for herself.
On the tenth of September Billy came home.

She was brown, plump-cheeked, and smiling.