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-- but it gave his hands something to do . '' ` Glad , ' I think you must mean , ma'am , '' said he slowly . She laughed . `` If you 're going to make pretty speeches , it 's time for me to run indoors , '' and she left him with a warning that dinner would be ready in ten minutes , or at one o'clock to the tick . This was by the gate of a broad-acred field -LRB- `` Parc Veor '' she had called it -RRB- in which her Jerseys browsed . Captain Cai counted them -- they were five -- while still half-consciously searching for pipe and pouch , which , in fact , he had left behind in the shop , in the pockets of his old coat . By-and-by he realised this , and with a curious sense of helplessness -- of having lost his bearings ... .