Although whilst in the boat she would not look at him, yet he could see by her uneasy movements on the bench that she knew that he was watching her. He saw her bend her brows and purse her lips. She left the boat hastily, casting the penny into it, and shortly after Jack saw that in her hurry she had neglected to take up one of her parcels. He hurried after her, caught her up, and presented it to her. 'I thank you,' said she coldly. 'Here is for your pains,' and offered him twopence. He coloured angrily and withdrew his hand. 'Take it,' she said. 'I refuse to be indebted to you for anything.' 'I will not take it.' She threw the coppers on the ground and pursued her way. Jack put his foot on them and ground them into the mud. Occasionally he encountered her in a lane; when this was so he could see by her manner that if it were possible for her to slip out of his way down a sidepath, she would do it; if it were not, she tossed her head and passed without a word. However, on one occasion she halted, hesitated, seemed inclined to speak――her lips moved; but she changed her mind and passed on her course without a word. One day the fancy took Jack Rattenbury to revisit the rift that had been formed when Mrs. Marley's cottage had been ruined. The kegs that had been secreted in the cave had all been removed. What induced Jack to go there, whether it were curiosity to ascertain what alteration had taken place in its aspect, or whether the association of the place with the eventful night when he escaped by it from the preventive men drew him there, he did not himself know. He crossed the estuary and sauntered along the beach. The tide was ebbing and leaving on the pebbles ribbons of weed and a thread of froth. Turning sharply round an angle of the cliff he came on the mouth of the chasm, and stood, breathless, not knowing whether to retreat or to go forward, for there before him, on a mass of fallen chalk, sat Winefred, her head in her hands, sobbing. The lad, after a moment's hesitation, took a step towards her. She looked up quickly, flushed, then turned pale, rose and faced him, with defiance in her countenance. 'Again――spying!' He was too surprised to speak. The sight of her tears had taken the courage out of him. 'Now you have seen me,' she said, 'you can go again.' 'I did not come here to see you. I did not expect to find you here. I came to look once more at the cave.' 'It is choked. You know it.' 'I did not know it. I have not been here since I helped you to get out.' 'That is false. You removed all the smuggled goods.' 'I did not. It was done by the others. I told them where they were concealed.' 'I do not believe you.' 'I have my faults, but lying is not one of them.' 'But slander is. I know you tell lies of us.' 'You are mistaken. Never have I said a word against you.' 'But you have against my mother.'