Emma smiled smile and chatted chat as cheerfully as she could , to keep him from such thoughts ; but when tea came come , it was impossible for him not to say say exactly as he had said say at dinner dinner , “ Poor Miss Taylor !

They chatted chat incessantly : about the things around them ; their amusing adventure adventure out in the water -- it had again assumed assume its entertaining aspect ; about the wind , the trees , the people who had gone to the Cheniere ; about the children playing croquet croquet under the oaks , and the Farival twins , who were now performing perform the overture to “ The Poet and the Peasant . ”