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"I beg your pardon, Hermione," he said, hastily. "Of course if you
really want to talk to Ruffo--"
"I don't think Vere will mind," she said.
Her lips were actually trembling, but her voice was calm.
They walked forward.
When they were close to the children they both saw there was a third
figure on the cliff. Gaspare was at a little distance. Hermione could
see the red point of his cigarette gleaming.
"Gaspare's there, too," she said.
"Yes."
"Why is he there?" Artois thought.
And again there woke up in him an intense curiosity about Gaspare.
Ruffo had seen them, and now he took off his cap. And Vere turned her
head and got up from the seat.
Neither the girl nor the boy gave any explanation of their being
together. Evidently they did not think it necessary to do so. Hermione
was the first to speak.
"Good-evening, Ruffo," she said.
Artois noticed a peculiar kindness and gentleness in her voice when
she spoke to the boy, a sound apart, that surely did not come into her
voice even when it spoke to Vere.


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