She even smiled at him, and her eyes, he thought, were the loveliest liars he had ever looked into.
He felt the stir of an unusual sentiment--a sort of pride in her, and he made up his mind to say nothing about Rossland.

He was still absurdly convinced that he had not the smallest interest in affairs which were not entirely his own.

Mary Standish evidently believed he was blind, and he would make no effort to spoil her illusion.

Such a course would undoubtedly be most satisfactory in the end.
Even now she seemed to have forgotten the incident at the foot of the stair.

A softer light was in her eyes when they came to the bow of the ship, and Alan fancied he heard a strange little cry on her lips as she looked about her upon the paradise of Taiya Inlet.