Aviat hagué esment que ella posava travetes d'ací d'alla amb cara encesa i ulls bellugadissos, fent veure que estava aqueferada en la percaça de companyons d'escola, i fent esgarips, de tant riure, quan aconseguia una captura; pero Tom repara que ella sempre feia les seves captures en son veinatge, i que semblava pegar a gratcient una llambregada en direcció seva, en aquells instants, tanmateix.
Soon he observed that she was tripping gayly back and forth with flushed face and dancing eyes, pretending to be busy chasing schoolmates, and screaming with laughter when she made a capture; but he noticed that she always made her captures in his vicinity, and that she seemed to cast a conscious eye in his direction at such times, too.