But she made no further attempt to dissuade her . `` Well , if you must . But you can not go alone -- no , Nora , I can not allow it . The wind is too high and it is too late for you to go over by yourself . Clark Bryant will take you . '' Nora would have protested but she knew it would be in vain . She submitted somewhat sullenly and walked down to the shore in silence . Clark Bryant strode beside her , humouring her mood . He was a tall , stout man , with an ugly , clever , sarcastic face . He was as clever as he looked , and was one of the younger millionaires whom John Cameron drew around him in the development of his huge financial schemes . Bryant was in love with Nora . This was why the Camerons had asked him to join their August house party at Dalveigh , and why he had accepted . It had occurred to Nora that this was the case , but as yet she had never troubled to think the situation over seriously . She liked Clark Bryant well enough , but just at the moment he was in the way . She did not want to take him over to Racicot -- just why she could not have explained . There was in her no snobbish shame of her humble home . But he did not belong there ; he was an alien , and she wished to go back to it for the first time alone . At the boathouse Davy launched the small sailboat and Nora took the tiller . She knew every inch of the harbour . As the sail filled before the wind and the boat sprang across the upcurling waves , her brief sullenness fell away from her .
She no longer resented Clark XXXXX 's presence -- she forgot it .
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