His earlier suspicion that Miss Brown possessed neither of these traits was borne out the following morning. He awoke feeling renewed and, intending to repay Diccon in whatever way he was able, left his blankets so as to start the fire. Miss Brown, however, was before him. Not only was the fire blazing merrily, but water was heated, and Harry was immediately pounced upon, made to sit on the convenient tree stump and have his head inspected, bathed, pronounced healing satisfactorily, and rebandaged. He was grateful for this kindness and made some courteous enquiries about her background. These were most harshly repulsed. His attempts at polite conversation were ignored, but when he gave up and lapsed into silence, he was promptly accused of sulking. Miss Brown, he perceived, was a hopeless case. Far from attempting to minimize her pitiful handicap, she accentuated it by a hostile manner that frequently deteriorated into outright rudeness. It was possible that did she attempt to improve her appearance a trifle she would not be totally repulsive, but instead her hair seemed even more untidily tangled this morning, and her face not only lacked any trace of cosmetics but was defaced by several smears of dirt.
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