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First Impressions
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climb out of that—or go out by way of my room. But no, I shouldn’t do that. It might give rise to gossip.”

He turned as he spoke, and she was free to make her way past him through the door. But the tone of his last remark had annoyed her more than all the rest. How was she to treat him? Thank goodness he didn’t live at Tirau!

Yet at breakfast, when they met again, he gave not the slightest sign of any previous encounter with her. He said “Good morning,” politely; and after that never once glanced in her direction.

“He can’t be snobbish enough to be ashamed of being friendly with the governess,” she thought. “In this year of grace that’s surely rather ‘vieux jeu.’” But she was quite satisfied to be ignored. She told herself that she had no desire to claim his notice further.

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