that she was making a flower-bed , and she stuckstickbig scarlet hibiscus blossoms into little heaps of earth , all the time growing more and more angryangryand mutteringmutterto herself the things she would say and the names she would call Saidie when she returned .
_ -- I foundfindthat my landlord had got a letter from the Count , directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me ; but on making inquiriesinquiryas to details he seemed somewhat reticent , and pretendedpretendthat he could not understand my German .
The very parts which made Margaret glowglowas she listenedlisten, Edith pretendedpretendto shiver and shudder at ; partly for the pleasurepleasureshe had in being coaxedcoaxout of her dislike by her fond lover , and partly because anything of a gipsy or make-shift life was really distasteful to her .