A sudden press of orders made it necessary to run the shop till late nights.

He contrived with difficulty to get out early one evening so as to call on Madeline; but she had gone out, and he failed to see her.

It was some ten days after the picnic that, on calling a second time, he found her at home.

It chanced to be the very evening of the day on which the conversation between Madeline and Cordis, narrated in the last chapter, had taken place.
She did not come in till Henry had waited some time in the parlour, and then gave him her hand in a very lifeless way.

She said she had a bad head-ache, and seemed disposed to leave the talking to him.