It was now so late that the family had all retired; he crept up to the house, thrust the note under the door, and stole away as silently as he had come.
Melbury himself was the first to rise the next morning, and when he had read the letter his relief was great.

"Very honorable of Giles, very honorable," he kept saying to himself.

"I shall not forget him.

Now to keep her up to her own true level." It happened that Grace went out for an early ramble that morning, passing through the door and gate while her father was in the spar-house.

To go in her customary direction she could not avoid passing Winterborne's house.