"But we've had a beastly time.

Ask Elizabeth." "Nothing but the weather!" said Elizabeth carelessly.

"We couldn't even see the mountains." But why, as she spoke, should the delicate cheek change colour, suddenly and brightly?
The answering blood leapt in Anderson.

She _had_ missed him, though she would not show it.
Delaine began to question him about Saskatchewan.

The Englishman's forms of conversation were apt to be tediously inquisitive, and Anderson had often resented them.