"Don't you think you will ever be happy, Giles ?" He did not reply for some instants.

"When the sun shines on the north front of Sherton Abbey--that's when my happiness will come to me!" said he, staring as it were into the earth.
"But--then that means that there is something more than my offending you in not liking The Three Tuns.

If it is because I--did not like to let you kiss me in the Abbey--well, you know, Giles, that it was not on account of my cold feelings, but because I did certainly, just then, think it was rather premature, in spite of my poor father.

That was the true reason--the sole one.

But I do not want to be hard--God knows I do not," she said, her voice fluctuating.