And, when soon after they had entered Lady Tancred arrived with Cyril and the girls, she had even smiled sweetly for one moment, when that gallant youth had stood on tiptoe and given her a hearty kiss! He was very small for his age, and full of superb self-possession.
"I think you are a stunner, Zara," he said.

"Two of our fellows, cousins of mine, who were in church with me, congratulated me awfully.

And now I hope you're soon going to cut the cake ?" And Tristram wondered why her mutinous mouth had quivered and her eyes become full of mist.

She was thinking of her own little brother, far away, who did not even know that there would be any cake.
And so, eventually, they had passed through the shower of rice and slippers and were at last alone in the motorcar again; and once more she shrank into her corner and did not speak, and he waited patiently until they should be in the train.
But once there, in the reserved saloon, when the obsequious guard had finally shut the door from waving friends and last hand shakes, and they slowly steamed out of the station, he came over and sat down beside her and tenderly took her little gray-gloved hand.
But she drew it away from him, and moved further off, before he could even speak.
"Zara!" he said pleadingly.
Then she looked intensely fierce.
"Can you not let me be quiet for a moment ?" she hissed.

"I am tired out." And he saw that she was trembling, and, though he was very much in love and maddeningly exasperated with everything, he let her rest, and even settled her cushion for her, silently, and took a paper and sat in an armchair near, and pretended to read.
And Zara stared out of the window, her heart beating in her throat.