"See how peaceful he is, and how little notice he takes of anything outside.

He will not remark any difference between Mr.Selincourt and Stee Jenkin, except that he may find the former more interesting to talk to." But Katherine shook her head, stealing many a glance at her father while she ate her supper, and worrying lest the name of the man he had wronged should stir some dim memory in his clouded mind, and bring up some ghost from the hidden past, to turn his peaceful days into a nightmare of unrest once more.

The salmon might have been sawdust for all the taste it had for her that night, and when supper was done she hurried through the work which could not be left, then, pleading weariness, went off to bed quite an hour before her usual time.
Although she went to bed she could not sleep.

She heard Jervis come in and stay talking to Mrs.Burton.

She also heard him say that he was going to take Mr.and Miss Selincourt across to Akimiski on the following day.