"Kit, I wonder if you're quite alive." Then she laughed, provocatively.

"Anyhow, you don't seem to know when you're given a chance of being nice." Kit did not answer and wished she would let him go.

He felt awkward and thought Janet knew this, for she resumed: "However, one mustn't expect too much and you want to get back.

It's a habit of yours.

You were in a hurry to get away the last time I saw you, when the stone-boat broke Creighton's wall." "I'd been at work since morning in the snow." "And Miss Osborn was waiting for you in the lonning ?" "No," said Kit sharply; "she was not." "Anyhow she was with you, before she stole away." "She didn't steal away," Kit began indignantly, but hesitated.