They would have enjoyed
the meal had it not been for the curious faces that blocked every
aperture in the room and the many bright eyes that peered at them
from each shadow.
But in spite of their equivocal situation, Edith seemed fully to
have regained her spirits. Even the prospect of spending the night
in this place apparently did not dismay her.
"We have created quite a sensation," she said, laughingly. "I
wonder if it makes the animals in the zoo as nervous to be stared
at."
Kirk was half puzzled, half relieved by the lightness of her mood.
"If you have finished this health-food," he remarked, "we'll go
back to the plaza and wait for the launch. I'm as full of cocoanut
as a shell."
They descended to the square again, stared at all the way through
open doors and followed by a subdued murmur of comment. Then they
sat for a long time watching the stars, half minded not to regret
the circumstance that had left them stranded together in such
pleasant surroundings.
As if in despair over their impossible predicament, Edith gave way
to a spirit of reckless vivacity, and Kirk, with a man's somewhat
exaggerated sympathy for a woman's sensitive feelings, loyally
strove to help her make the best of things in her own way.
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