She regarded a stained window, with her head sideways, and tentatively asked him if he remembered the last time they were in that town alone.
He remembered it perfectly, and remarked, "You were a proud miss then, and as dainty as you were high.

Perhaps you are now ?" Grace slowly shook her head.

"Affliction has taken all that out of me," she answered, impressively.

"Perhaps I am too far the other way now." As there was something lurking in this that she could not explain, she added, so quickly as not to allow him time to think of it, "Has my father written to you at all ?" "Yes," said Winterborne.
She glanced ponderingly up at him.

"Not about me ?" "Yes." His mouth was lined with charactery which told her that he had been bidden to take the hint as to the future which she had been bidden to give.