He saw the reluctant dimple which showed fleetingly in Evadna's cheek, and also the tears which swelled her eyelids immediately after, but she did not know that he saw them, though another did.
He was taken wholly by surprise when Miss Georgie, walking past him afterward on her way to an enticing pool, nipped his arm for attention and murmured: "You're doing fine--only don't overdo it.

She's had just about all she can stand right now.

Give her a chance to forgive you--and let her think she came out ahead! Good luck!" Whereupon she finished whatever she pretended to have been doing to her fishing-tackle, and beckoned Wally and Jack to come along.
"We've just got to catch that big one," she laughed, "so Mr.Baumberger can go home and attend to his own business!" It took imagination to feel sure there had been a significant accent on the last of the sentence, and Baumberger must have been imaginative.

He lowered his head like a bull meditating assault, and his leering eyes shot her a glance of inquiry and suspicion.

But Miss Georgie Howard met his look with a smile that was nothing more than idle amusement.
"I'd like nothing better than to get that four-pounder on my line," she added.