So," she finished in a tone of satisfaction, "we'll be even.

I feel a great deal better now, because I can pay you back." Billy, on that night, was more keenly observant than usual and there was much that he saw.

He saw at once that Miss Bridger lifted her eyebrows in the way she had demonstrated as _this way_, whenever the Pilgrim approached her.

He saw that the Pilgrim was looking extremely bloodthirsty and went out frequently--Billy guessed shrewdly that his steps led to where the drink was not water--and the sight cheered him considerably.

Yet it hurt him a little to observe that, when the Pilgrim was absent or showed no sign of meaning to intrude upon her, Miss Bridger did not lift her eyebrows consciously.