I happened to be setting a wire on the top of my garden one night when he met her on the other side of the hedge; and the way she queened it, and fenced, and kept that poor feller at a distance, was enough to freeze yer blood.

I should never have supposed it of such a girl." Melbury now returned to the room, and the men having declared themselves refreshed, they all started on the homeward journey, which was by no means cheerless under the rays of the high moon.

Having to walk the whole distance they came by a foot-path rather shorter than the highway, though difficult except to those who knew the country well.

This brought them by way of Great Hintock; and passing the church-yard they observed, as they talked, a motionless figure standing by the gate.
"I think it was Marty South," said the hollow-turner, parenthetically.
"I think 'twas; 'a was always a lonely maid," said Upjohn.

And they passed on homeward, and thought of the matter no more.
It was Marty, as they had supposed.