But let us be quick now.

We have a serious undertaking before us.

Think of nothing but going straight on." They walked on in profound silence, pulling back boughs now growing wet, and treading down woodbine, but still keeping a pretty straight course.

Grace began to be thoroughly worn out, and her companion too, when, on a sudden, they broke into the deserted highway at the hill-top on which the Sherton man had waited for Mrs.Dollery's van.

Grace recognized the spot as soon as she looked around her.
"How we have got here I cannot tell," she said, with cold civility.
"We have made a complete circuit of Little Hintock.