From the platform he saw the top of her bonnet; and why she should have been guilty of this freak of riding in an unwholesome carriage, tasked his power of guessing.

He was too English even to have taken the explanation, for he detested the distinguishing of the races in his country, and could not therefore have comprehended her peculiar tenacity of the sense of injury as long as enthusiasm did not arise to obliterate it.

He required a course of lessons in Irish.
Sauntering down the lane, he called at Simon Rofe's cottage, and spoke very kindly to the gamekeeper's wife.

That might please Diana.

It was all he could do at present..