But I cannot obey him further to-day.

Come, let us go now." She gently slid her hand from his, and went in front of him out of the Abbey.
"I was thinking of getting some dinner," said Winterborne, changing to the prosaic, as they walked.

"And you, too, must require something.
Do let me take you to a place I know." Grace was almost without a friend in the world outside her father's house; her life with Fitzpiers had brought her no society; had sometimes, indeed, brought her deeper solitude and inconsideration than any she had ever known before.

Hence it was a treat to her to find herself again the object of thoughtful care.

But she questioned if to go publicly to dine with Giles Winterborne were not a proposal, due rather to his unsophistication than to his discretion.