He heard, and starting as though he had been shot, strode to the door of the Vicarage.

Here his courage seemed to desert him, for he hesitated.
"Knock, squire, knock, and ask if it is true," said a woman, the same who had declared that she would have hugged her husband back to life.
This remark seemed to encourage the man, at any rate he did knock.
Presently the door was opened by Elizabeth.
"Go away," she said in her sharp voice; "the house must be kept quiet." "I beg your pardon, Miss Granger," said the visitor, in a tone of deep humiliation.

"I only wanted to know if it was true that Miss Beatrice lives." "Why," said Elizabeth with a start, "is it you, Mr.Davies?
I am sure I had no idea.

Step into the passage and I will shut the door.

There! How long have you been outside ?" "Oh, since they brought them up.