But still I do not understand something.

I have told them I was coming here to see you.

If it was one of my girls, why has she not come ?" Ruth had turned away, ostensibly to pull down the little window shade but really to send a swift searching glance out across the Green.
"She went the other way," she replied, rather breathlessly.
Olga sprang to her feet.

"Now, what is zat little fool up to ?" she cried, angrily.

"If I catch her running out to meet men at zis hour of--" Ruth interrupted her.