Well, it was a blessing he had found something else to look at! And presently she began to have other thoughts.

It was necessary, she fancied, that she should put herself right by a repetition of the incident, better managed.

If the wish was father to the thought, she did not know or she would not recognise it.
It was simply as a manoeuvre of propriety, as something called for to lessen the significance of what had gone before, that she should a second time meet his eyes, and this time without blushing.

And at the memory of the blush, she blushed again, and became one general blush burning from head to foot.

Was ever anything so indelicate, so forward, done by a girl before?
And here she was, making an exhibition of herself before the congregation about nothing! She stole a glance upon her neighbours, and behold! they were steadily indifferent, and Clem had gone to sleep.
And still the one idea was becoming more and more potent with her, that in common prudence she must look again before the service ended.
Something of the same sort was going forward in the mind of Archie, as he struggled with the load of penitence.