He listened and named his time for returning.

The tug between rigour and endurance continued for about forty hours.

She then thought, in an exhaustion: 'Strange that my father should be so fiercely excited against this man! Can he have reasons I have not heard of ?' Her father's unwonted harshness suggested the question in her quailing nature, which was beginning to have a movement to kiss the whip.

The question set her thinking of the reasons she knew.

She saw them involuntarily from the side of parents, and they wore a sinister appearance; in reality her present scourging was due to them as well as to Alvan's fatal decision.