Again Janet was tempted to drop Granny 's pill box into the depths of Burnley Pond -- and again she decided not to because she saw Randall Burnley 's deep-set , blue-grey eyes , that could look tender or sorrowful or passionate or whimsical as he willed , and thought how they would look when he found Avery did not love him . So Janet drowned the voice of conscience and was brazenly happy -- happy because Randall Burnley rowed her up the pond -- happy because he walked halfway home with her over the autumnal fields -- happy because he talked of the day and the sea and the golden weather , as only Randall could talk . But she thought she was happy because she had in her pocket what might make Avery love him . Randall went as far as the stile in the birch wood between the Burnley and the Sparhallow land -- and he kept her there talking for another half-hour -- and though he talked only of a book he had read and a new puppy he was training , Janet listened with her soul in her ears . She talked too -- quite freely ; she was never in the least shy or tongue-tied or awkward in Randall 's company . There she was always at her best , with a delightful feeling of being understood . She wondered if he noticed she had her hair done up . Her eyes shone and her brown face was full of rosy , kissable hues . When he finally turned away homeward , life went flat . Janet decided she was very tired after her long walk and her trying interview . But it did not matter , since she had her love potion . That was so much nicer a name than toad ointment . That night Janet rubbed mutton tallow on her hands . She had never done that before -- she had thought it vain and foolish -- though Avery did it every night . But that afternoon on the pond Randall had said something about the beautiful shape of her pretty slender hands . He had never paid her a compliment before . Her hands were brown and a little hard -- not soft and white like Avery 's . So Janet resorted to the mutton tallow . If one had a scrap of beauty , if only in one 's hands , one might as well take care of it . Having got her ointment , the next thing was to make use of it .
This was not so easy -- because , XXXXX the first place , it must not be done when there was any danger of Avery 's seeing some other than Randall first -- and it must be done without Avery 's knowing it .
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