At the present moment she was inclined to be very positive, but he had hardly as yet given her an opportunity of speaking out.

"I think you know, Mary, what it is that I want." They were now at a rough stile which enabled him to come close up to her and help her.

She tripped over the stile with a light step and again walked on rapidly.

The field they were in enabled him to get up to her side, and now if ever was his opportunity.

It was a long straggling meadow which he knew well, with the Dill running by it all the way,--or rather two meadows with an open space where there had once been a gate.