The heart hears.

It's only a manner of speaking, this talk about the senses.

One sense can do the same as all can do and a Romany ought to know how to use one or all.
When your heart called I heard it, and across the seas I came.

And by long and by last, but I was right in coming." His impudence at once irritated her and provoked her admiration.

She knew by instinct how false he was, and how a lie was as common with him as the truth; but his submission to her father, his indifference to his imprisonment, forced her interest, even as she was humiliated by the fact that he was sib to her, bound by ties of clan and blood apart from his monstrous claim of marriage.