What would his mother say when she heard of Amelia Roper?
What would she say when she saw her?
He walked away towards the Manor, so that he might roam about the Guestwick woods in solitude.

There was a path with a stile, leading off from the high road, about half a mile beyond the lodges through which the Dales had ridden up to the house, and by this path John Eames turned in, and went away till he had left the Manor house behind him, and was in the centre of the Guestwick woods.

He knew the whole ground well, having roamed there ever since he was first allowed to go forth upon his walks alone.

He had thought of Lily Dale by the hour together, as he had lost himself among the oak-trees; but in those former days he had thought of her with some pleasure.

Now he could only think of her as of one gone from him for ever; and then he had also to think of her whom he had taken to himself in Lily's place.
Young men, very young men,--men so young that it may be almost a question whether or no they have as yet reached their manhood,--are more inclined to be earnest and thoughtful when alone than they ever are when with others, even though those others be their elders.