He shook it until she had driven away beyond the hill and was lost to sight, and still stood there at the window looking out.
Presently Madame Lavilette appeared in the garden below, and he was sure, from the way she glanced up at the window, and from her position in the shrubbery, that she had seen the signal.

Madame did not look displeased.

On the contrary, though an alliance with Christine now seemed unlikely, because of the state of Ferrol's health and his religion and nationality, it pleased her to think that it might have been.
When she had passed into the house, Ferrol sat down on the broad window-sill, and looked out the way Christine had gone.

He was thinking of the humiliation of his position, and how it would be more humiliating when he married Christine, should the Lavilettes turn against them--which was quite possible.

And from outside: the whole parish--a few excepted--sympathised with the Rebellion, and once the current of hatred of the English set in, he would be swept down by it.