Jane selected and ate an olive with maddening deliberation . `` I suppose you may -- if you are really convinced that he wants to hear it , '' she said at last , as if barely recollecting that I had asked the question two minutes previously . `` I 'll tell him as soon as I go home , '' I said . I had the satisfaction of startling Jane at last . She turned her head and looked at me . I got a good , square , satisfying gaze into her big , blackish-blue eyes . `` Yes , '' I said , compelling myself to look away . `` He came in on the boat this afternoon too late for his train . Has to stay over till to-morrow night . I left him in my rooms when I came away . Doubtless to-morrow will see him speeding recklessly to his dear divinity . I wonder if he knows where she is at present . '' `` If he does n't , '' said Jane , with the air of dismissing the subject once and forever from her mind , `` I can give him the information . You may tell him I 'm staying with the Duncan Moores , and shall be leaving day after to-morrow . By the way , have you seen Mrs. Kennedy 's collection of steins ? It is a remarkably fine one . '' Clark Oliver could n't come to our wedding -- or would n't . Jane has never met him since , but she can not understand why I have such an aversion to him , especially when he has such a good opinion of me . She says she thought him charming , and one of the most interesting conversationalists she ever went out to dinner with . Robert Turner 's Revenge When Robert Turner came to the green , ferny triangle where the station road forked to the right and left under the birches , he hesitated as to which direction he would take .
The left led out to the old Turner homestead , where he had spent his boyhood and where his cousin still lived ; the right led down XXXXX the Cove shore where the Jameson property was situated .
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