In a rather small voice she said, "You're still angry.

It wasn't my
fault the horrid monkeys crowded round us."
"I'd told you before not to touch the babies. It's dangerous to play
with the young of any type of animal if the parents are around - you
know that. It's typical of you that you did it on the edge of a
waterfall!"
e shrugged non-committally. "Isn't that the way you want it! "fter
all, here in the dark middle of "frica you're very much at my mercy,
and I'm not so easy to handle as #eorge. You made me very angry
yesterday, and I don't think even you would be unwise enough to
repeat the performance so soon."
"$erhaps," she said, in the same remote little tones, "
%ot really. &y district is four hundred miles from 'lantyre. In any
case, my home is (edlands."
)he allowed a few seconds to elapse before saying, "*e're being
awfully polite, aren't we!"
He has taken her to the station. She has money of her own and I dont think she
will trouble us again. Rick was quite prepared, you see, to tell Julio eerything if
she refused to leae, and she loes Julio. She wouldnt want him to know that she
was ready to kill me for his sake.!Suddenly the eyes looking at "yn were abla#e
with happiness.