She knew as well as I did that the old fool who drives it wasn't particular as to time, and she worried about my old woman getting scairt if she found herself alone, and me out.

'Go back to her, Thalassa,' she said, 'I shall be all right now.' That was just after she'd made me promise to tell nobody that she'd been to see her father that night.

And, by God, I kept my word.

Nobody got anything out of me, though they tried hard enough.

Well, when she sent me back I went, leaving her standing, for I had my own reason for going.