summer noon
She turned her face and looked him straight in the eyes -- looked into them as if they were windows through which she could peer into the convolutions of his brain . She held her eyes steady until his dropped , unable to sustain the nearness of her presence . `` You see , '' she said , `` I am ready to do anything I can to please you ! '' He felt strangely defeated , rose , and sat down beside her again , with the sickness of a hot summer noon in his soul . But he must leave no room for mistake ! He had been dreaming long enough ! What had not Sefton told him !