"I heard the bushes move long before I saw you," she began.

"I said first, 'it is some terrible beast;' next, 'it is a poacher;' next, 'it is a friend!'" He regarded her with a slight smile, weighing, not her speech, but the question whether he should tell her that she had been watched.

He decided in the negative.
"You have been to the house ?" he said.

"But I need not ask." The fact was that there shone upon Miss Melbury's face a species of exaltation, which saw no environing details nor his own occupation; nothing more than his bare presence.
"Why need you not ask ?" "Your face is like the face of Moses when he came down from the Mount." She reddened a little and said, "How can you be so profane, Giles Winterborne ?" "How can you think so much of that class of people?
Well, I beg pardon; I didn't mean to speak so freely.

How do you like her house and her ?" "Exceedingly.