Falchion's self-possessed manner on this occasion, and of how she
rose superior to the situation, I was told that I must have regarded the
thing poetically and dramatically, for no woman could possibly look
self-possessed in draggled skirts. She said that I always magnified
certain of Mrs. Falchion's qualities.
That may be so, and yet it must be remembered that I was not predisposed
towards her, and that I wished her well away from where Roscoe was.
As for Justine Caron, she lay with her head on Mrs. Revel's lap, and
looked from beneath heavy eyelids at Roscoe with such gratitude and--but,
no, she is only a subordinate in the story, and not a chief factor, and
what she said or did here is of no vital consequence at this moment! We
rowed to a point near the confluence of the two rivers, where we could
leave our boats to be poled back through the rapids or portaged past
them.
On the way Mrs. Falchion said to Roscoe: "I knew you were somewhere in
the Rockies; and at Vancouver, when I came from San Francisco, I heard of
your being here. I had intended spending a month somewhere in the
mountains, so I came to Viking, and on to the summer hotel: but really
this is too exciting for recreation.
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