Her quick intuition of the reason of his coming barred a mental evasion, and she had no thought of asking either him or herself what special urgency had brought him.
'I have been here four days.' 'Lady Esquart spoke of the place.' 'Lady Esquart should not have betrayed me.' 'She did it inadvertently, without an idea of my profiting by it.' Diana indicated the scene in a glance.

'Dreary country, do you think ?' 'Anywhere!'-- said he.
They walked up the sand-heap.

The roaring Easter with its shrieks and whistles at her ribands was not favourable to speech.

His 'Anywhere!' had a penetrating significance, the fuller for the break that left it vague.
Speech between them was commanded; he could not be suffered to remain.
She descended upon a sheltered pathway running along a ditch, the border of pastures where cattle cropped, raised heads, and resumed their one comforting occupation.
Diana gazed on them, smarting from the buffets of the wind she had met.
'No play of their tails to-day'; she said, as she slackened her steps.
'You left Lady Esquart well ?' 'Lady Esquart...

I think was well.