own house. I wish you'd heard her going for Aunt Juliet
last night, most politely, but every word she said had what's called in
French a 'double entendre' wrapped up in it. That means----"

"I know what it means," said Frank.

"That's all right then. I thought perhaps you wouldn't. I always heard
they rather despised French at boys' schools, which is idiotic of course
and may not be true."

Frank recollected a form master with whom, at one stage of his career at
school he used to study the adventures of the innocent Telemaque. This
gentleman refused to read aloud or allow his class to read aloud
the text of the book, alleging that no one who did not suffer from a
malformation of the mouth could pronounce French properly. Still even
this master must have attached some meaning to the phrase "double
entendre," though he might not have used it in precisely Priscilla's
sense.

"Flanagan has probably been over to Curraunbeg," said Priscilla, "to see
how his old boat is looking. After what Jimmy Kinsella is sure to
have told him about the way they're treating her he's naturally a bit
anxious. I wonder will he have the nerve to charge them anything extra
at the end for dilapidations. It's curious now that we don't see the
tents on Curraunbeg. I saw them yesterday from Craggeen. Perhaps they've
moved round to the other side of the island."

"There's a boat coming out from behind the point now," said Frank.
"Perhaps they're moving again."

Priscilla leaned over the gunwale and stared long at the boat which
Frank pointed out.

"There's a man and a woman in her," he said.

"It's not Flanagan's old boat though," said Priscilla. "I rather think
it's Jimmy Kinsella. I hope Miss Rutherford hasn't been hunting them on
her own, under the impression that they're German spies. We oughtn't to
have told her that. She's so frightfully impulsive you can't tell what
she'd do."

Jimmy Kinsella had recognised the _Tortoise_ shortly after he rounded
the point of Curraunbeg. He dropped his lug sail and began to row up to
windward evidently meaning to get within speaking distance of Priscilla.
The boats approached each other at an angle. Miss Rutherford stood up
in the stern of hers, waved a pocket handkerchief and shouted. Priscilla
shouted in reply. Frank threw the _Tortoise_ up into the wind and Jimmy
Kinsella pulled alongside.

"They've gone," said Miss Rutherford. "They've escaped you again."

"You've frightened them away," said