Thou'll have to get out at a stile, I'll tell t' driver where; and thou must get over t' stile and follow t' path down two fields, and th' house is right before ye, and bid 'em make haste and lock up th' house, for they mun stay all night here.

Kester 'll look after things.' All this time Hester was hastily putting on her hat and cloak, which she had fetched from the closet where they usually hung through the day; now she stood listening, as it were, for final directions.
'But suppose they will not come,' said she; 'they dunnot know me, and mayn't believe my words.' 'They must,' said he, impatiently.

'They don't know what awaits 'em,' he continued.

'I'll tell thee, because thou 'll not let out, and it seems as if I mun tell some one--it were such a shock--he's to be tried for 's life.

They know not it's so serious; and, Hester,' said he, going on in his search after sympathy, 'she's like as if she was bound up in her father.' His lips quivered as he looked wistfully into Hester's face at these words.