'Aren't we going too much to the left?' sang Hermione, as she sat

ignored under her coloured parasol.

Gerald looked round without replying, the oars balanced and glancing in

the sun.

'I think it's all right,' he said good-humouredly, beginning to row

again without thinking of what he was doing. And Hermione disliked him

extremely for his good-humoured obliviousness, she was nullified, she

could not regain ascendancy.




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