The laughter was still in her good-humoured face.

Aldous looked at his companion, and he found her smiling back.

The eyes of the two women had already met.
Briefly Aldous explained what had happened at Quade's, and that the young woman was leaving on the Tete Jaune train.

The good-humoured smile left Mrs.Otto's face when he mentioned Quade.
"I've told Jack I'd like to poison that man some day," she cried.

"You poor dear, come in, I'll get you a cup of tea." "Which always means dinner in the Otto camp," added Aldous.
"I'm not so hungry, but I'm tired--so tired," he heard the girl say as she went in with Mrs.Otto, and there was a new and strangely pathetic note in her voice.