We are mastering it! And you thought"-- he looked at her with amusement and a kind of triumph--"that the country had mastered us ?" There was something in his voice and eyes, as though not he spoke, but a nation through him.

"Splendid!" was the word that rose in Elizabeth's mind; and a thrill ran with it.
The gloom of the afternoon deepened.

The showers increased.

But Elizabeth could not be prevailed upon to go in.

In the car Delaine and Philip were playing dominoes, in despair of anything more amusing.
Yerkes was giving his great mind to the dinner which was to be the consolation of Philip's day.
Meanwhile Elizabeth kept Anderson talking.