If before others his eyes brought the blood to her cheeks, she would perhaps drop her eye-lids an instant, and then glance quickly level again to reassure him.

And who would have thought that this boisterous, boyish creature had such depths of eye! Cold, did they call her?
Let others think her cold.

The tender knowledge of her--the throbbing secret they held in common sang at his heart.

Rose made no confidante, but she attempted no mystery.

Evan should have risen to the height of the noble girl.