Tell him that I'm coming." Mrs.Trevelyan stooped over her, kissed her, and then left her.
Nora, as soon as she was alone, stood upright in the middle of the room and held her hands up to her forehead.

She had been far from thinking, when she was considering the matter easily among the hillocks, that the necessity for an absolute decision would come upon her so instantaneously.

She had told herself only this morning that it would be wise to accept the man, if he should ever ask a second time;--and he had come already.

He had been waiting for her in the village while she had been thinking whether he would ever come across her path again.

She thought that it would have been easier for her now to have gone down with a "yes" in her mouth, if her sister had not pressed her so hard to say that "yes." The very pressure from her sister seemed to imply that such pressure ought to be resisted.