He made no answer, and turned his face away from her again, 
and Mrs Hall, feeling that her talk was unwelcome, finished 
laying the table quickly, and hurried out of the room. When she 
returned he was still standing there like a man of stone, his collar 
turned up, the edge of his hat turned down, almost hiding his 
face and ears. She put down the eggs and meat noisily, and called 
rather than said to him: