But it's a pity she doesn't play the piano,' he added, musingly.
For two days nothing was seen of the Yules.

Jasper went each afternoon to the stream in the valley, but did not again meet Marian.

In the meanwhile he was growing restless.

A fortnight always exhausted his capacity for enjoying the companionship of his mother and sisters, and this time he seemed anxious to get to the end of his holiday.

For all that, there was no continuance of the domestic bickering which had begun.