Darden turned to the girl.

"I've done with the writing for the nonce, child," he said, "and need you no longer.

I'll smoke a pipe and think of my sermon.

You're tired; out with you into the sunshine! Go to the wood or down by the creek, but not beyond call, d'ye mind." Audrey looked from one to the other, but said nothing.

There were many things in the world of other people which she did not understand; one thing more or less made no great difference.