She must rise far above the level of ordinary intelligent women.

She must manifest an absolute confidence in him--that was the true significance of his present motives.

The censures and suspicions which she had not scrupled to confess in plain words must linger in no corner of her mind.
His heart throbbed with impatience for her coming.

Come she would; it was not in Rhoda's nature to play tricks; if she had not meant to meet him she would have said so resolutely, as last night.
At a few minutes past the hour he looked landward, and saw her figure against the golden sky.

She came down from the sandbank very slowly, with careless, loitering steps.