Had this girl done it on purpose?
Yet why should she--she who had so appealed to her to come to him--have sought to humiliate her?
Kitty was not quite sure what she ought to say.

"You see, we expected him back before this.

He is very exact!" "Very exact ?" asked Mrs.Crozier in astonishment.

This was a new phase of Shiel Crozier's character.

He must, indeed, have changed since he had caused her so much anxiety in days gone by.
"Usen't he to be so ?" asked Kitty, a little viciously.