Yet her heart had a wild hunger for that something which this girl had and she had not.

But the man was hers; she had won him away from this other.
Delia came upon the quay bravely, passing through the crowd of staring fishermen, who presently gave Gaston a guttural cheer.

Three of them, indeed, had been drinking his health.

They embraced him and kissed him, begging him to come with them for absinthe.

He arranged the matter with a couple of francs.
Then he wondered what now was to be done.