Would the man ever tell her, or would she be compelled to shake the information out of him?
"Did Miss Radford tell you what had happened ?" she asked, with an emphatic stamp of her foot on the floor.
"Yes, Miss.

Mr.Selincourt, not knowing, ventured out on a muskeg, and was being slowly sucked in, when she and her brother came along the back creek in their boat.

It was a touch-and-go business then, for she had no planks or hurdles, though luckily she had ropes; but by sending her little brother, who weighs next to nothing at all, to slip a noose of rope under Mr.Selincourt's shoulders, she was able to haul on the rope, and so drag him out by sheer force of arm.

She sent her love to you, and hopes he will soon be better," the man said, with a little flourish of his hands.

In point of fact Katherine had done nothing of the kind, but it sounded better so, he thought, and gave a consolatory touch to the whole.
Mary turned abruptly away.