Had the cat really seen anything of a supernatural nature?
Or was it only that she had been frightened by being suddenly brought into a room full of people?
If so, it was perhaps natural that she had blindly flown at the one stranger there.
At last Timmy returned, and they started off, neither speaking a word until they were clear of the village.

Radmore thought he knew every inch of the way, for he and Betty had once cycled together all over the countryside.

He checked a sigh as he thought of those days--how happy he had been, with that simple, unquestioning happiness which belongs only to extreme youth.

He wondered if Betty ever remembered those far-off days.
They had come very near, the one to the other, last evening, and yet, from his point of view, theirs was an unsatisfactory kind of friendship.
It was as if she was always holding something back from him.

And then, while he was thinking of Betty, the little boy sitting by his side suddenly observed: "Perhaps we might tell Betty--I mean when we get back again--where Josephine and her kittens are?
She was awfully upset last night; almost as upset as I was.