She listened to him in silence with an unchanging face, her lips set thin, her sombre eyes gazing straight before her.
Suddenly despair seized Courtnay, and he gave the rein to the fury which he had been repressing with such difficulty.

"At any rate, I'll be even with you, you young dog!" he cried savagely.

"I'm going to throw you out of the train!" "Oh, no; you're not!" said Tinker pleasantly.

"By the time you've thrown Blazer out there won't be enough of you left to throw me out." Courtnay jumped up with a demonstrative hostility; Tinker hissed; with an angry snarl Blazer drew in his tongue and put out his teeth, and Courtnay sat down.

For a while he was silent, seeking for an object to vent his rage on; they could hear him grinding his teeth.