"I'm afraid it's been an awful nuisance and trouble for you.

You haven't blistered your hands, I hope?
Let me see!" She stretched out her hands, palm upwards, and he took them and examined them.
"No.

That's all right! 'All's well that ends well.' You want a few lessons with the sculls, Miss Falconer, and you'd make a splendid boat-woman.

Perhaps you'd let me give you one or two ?" "Thank you; yes," she said; and to his surprise with less of her usual half-scornful languor.
"Here's the tea.

Any particular kind of cake you fancy ?" She said that the cakes would do, and poured out the tea; but he put some milk into his saucer and gave some to the terrier, slowly, methodically, and with a tenderness and gentleness which was not lost upon the girl who watched him covertly before paying any attention to his own tea.
"I wonder whether you could stand, my little man," he said, and he put the terrier on the ground.
It stood upright and shivering for a moment, then it put its tiny paws on Stafford's knee and looked up into his face appealingly.