It was curious to see how the girl managed them, saying little all the time, and that very quietly, and yet twisting them round her finger and insensibly leading them wherever she would by feminine tact and generalship.

It scarcely seemed to have been her doing--it seemed as if things had merely so fallen out--that she and her father took their departure that same afternoon in a farm-cart, and went farther down the valley, to wait, until their own house was ready for them, in another hamlet.

But Will had been observing closely, and was well aware of her dexterity and resolution.

When he found himself alone he had a great many curious matters to turn over in his mind.

He was very sad and solitary, to begin with.