What do you think ?' Mallinson carelessly assented and returned to his seat.
For the remainder of the evening Drake avoided Clarice.

As he was taking his leave, however, she came up to him.

He shook her by the hand and she whispered one word to him, 'Matanga.' Drake could not mistake the note of longing in her voice, and as he drove to his chambers the temptation with which he had wrestled at the gates of Garples assailed him again, and with double force.

He had but to speak, he knew, and she would come.

The loneliness of his rooms made the struggle yet harder, yet more doubtful.
He pictured to himself what he had never had, a home, and he located that home in Matanga.