What happened comes between us.

We're each anxious about the other and feel a constraint, though we never speak of it.

That can't be avoided, I suppose, for we both suffered a good deal at the time--but he most, much the most because"-- Damaris paused.
"Because why ?" "I suppose because I'm young; and then, once I got accustomed to the idea, I saw it meant what was very wonderful in some ways--a wonderfulness which, for me, would go on and on--a whole new country for me to explore and travel in, quite my own--and--and--which I couldn't help loving." "Heigh ho! heigh ho!" Carteret put in softly.

"This becomes exciting, dear witch, you know." "I don't want to be tantalizing," she answered him, still pacing in the growing dimness of land and sea.
The dead black mass of the great ilex trees looked to touch the low hanging sky.

A grey gleam, here and there, lit the surface of the swirling tide-river.