I said nothing.

“He is at our house every day, and every moment when he is not on duty,” she remarked.

“What gallant man would not do the like, if privileged?” I said lightly.

“Lana talks with him too much. Angelina and I have kept our rooms, as I wrote you, truly dreading a stroke of the sun. But Lana! Lord! She was up and out and about with her lieutenant; and he had an Oneida to take them both boating — and then he had the canoe only, and paddled it himself� . They were gone too long to suit me,” she added curtly.

“When?”

“Every night. I wish I knew where they go in their canoe. But I can do nothing with Lana� . You, perhaps, might say a friendly word to Mr. Boyd —