No; it must be kept from her that prying eyes had watched her going and coming.

Already it might be too late; the marriage with Gilbert might be impossible, if only because Thyrza would inevitably betray her love for Egremont; but there was all the future to think of, and Thyrza must not be driven to some irreparable folly.
There was one hypothesis which Lydia quite left aside.

She did not ask herself whether Egremont might not truly and honestly love her sister.
It was natural enough that she should not think of it.

Every tradition weighed in favour of rascality on the young man's part, and Lydia's education did not suffice to raise her above the common point of view in such a matter.

A gentleman did not fall in love with a work-girl, not in the honest sense.