“I will be a lady,” Solly said. “A good girl. Tell me how, Teyeo.” “I don’t want you to give in,” he said, so fiercely, with tears in his eyes, that she went to him and held him in her arms. “Hold fast,” he said. “I will,” she said. But when Kergat or the others came in she was sedate and modest, letting the men talk, keeping her eyes down. He could not bear to see her so, and knew she was right to do so.
