"They have started stealing the sheep again." "Can't you catch them ?" she said, with pretended asperity.

"If you went out and hid in a fallen tree, don't you think you could catch them ?" Hugh looked at her to see if she were in earnest, but she looked straight in front again and said nothing, still keeping up the slight tapping of her foot.

He flushed a little, and spoke very quietly.
"I think I'll have to resign from your employment, Miss Grant.

I don't care about stopping any longer; and I will go out back and take up one of those twenty-thousand-acre leases in Queensland.

You might put Poss or Binjie on in my place.