"Or else, 'You are the cook,'" she muttered, and shut, with the word, steel bars across her heart, calling him, mentally, names not justified by anything he had said or done--such as mercenary, tyrannical, and such like.
Robert was attentive to her in church.

Once she caught him with his eyes on her face; but he betrayed no confusion, and looked away at the clergyman.

When the text was given out, he found the place in his Bible, and handed it to her pointedly--"There shall be snares and traps unto you;" a line from Joshua.

She received the act as a polite pawing civility; but when she was coming out of church, Robert saw that a blush swept over her face, and wondered what thoughts could be rising within her, unaware that girls catch certain meanings late, and suffer a fiery torture when these meanings are clear to them.

Rhoda called up the pride of her womanhood that she might despise the man who had dared to distrust her.