But I expect some more this afternoon.' He walked away from her, with books in his hands.

Thyrza felt ashamed.
What must he think of her?
It was almost rude to come in this way--without shadow of excuse.

Doubtless he was punishing her by this cold manner.

Yet he could not unsay what he had said yesterday; and his recognition of her just outside the Hall last night had been so friendly.

She felt that her mode of addressing him had been too unceremonious; the 'Sir' of their former intercourse seemed demanded again.