At last she allowed herself to go; she felt as if a rope were taken off her ankle.
The afternoon was golden over the hills of Derbyshire.

He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive.

Hearing her coming, he turned to her with an easy motion, saying: "It's the end of the run with these chaps." Clara stood near him.

Over the low red wall in front was the country and the far-off hills, all golden dim.
At that moment Miriam was entering through the garden-door.

She saw Clara go up to him, saw him turn, and saw them come to rest together.
Something in their perfect isolation together made her know that it was accomplished between them, that they were, as she put it, married.