It was quite right," she went on judicially--"for everyone's sake, we should stay here just the same at first.

People," with a scornful lift of the head Carteret noted and admired--"might have mistaken our reason for going away.

They had to be made to understand we were perfectly indifferent .-- I knew all that, though we never discussed it.

One does things, sometimes, just because it's right they should be done, without any sort of planning--just by instinct.

Still I know we can't be quite natural here.