Just before descending into a hollow which would hide her, she cast a look back, and saw that Thyrza's eyes were following her.
'But how could he speak of her and yet tell me nothing ?' His delicacy explained it, no doubt.

He had not liked to say of the simple girl whom Grail was to marry that she was very beautiful.
Annabel felt that most men would have been less scrupulous: it was characteristic of Egremont to feel a subtle propriety of that kind.
Annabel was at all times disposed to interpret Egremont's motives in a higher sense than would apply to the average man.
On her return, Thyrza had tea with Mrs.Mapper and the children, then went with them to the large room upstairs in which evenings were spent till the early bedtime.

It was an ideal nursery, with abundant picture-books, with toys, with everything that could please a child's eye and engage a child's mind.

There was a piano, and on this Mrs.
Mapper sometimes played the kind of music that children would like.

She taught them songs, moreover, and a singing evening was always much looked forward to.