She stood for a moment, afraid to move, lest she should startle him, and he should call out, for the slightest noise about the place would bring Godfrey down.

The next moment, however, Tom, aware of her presence, sprang to his feet, and, turning, bounded to her, and took her in his arms.

Still possessed by the one terror of making a noise, she did not object even by a contrary motion, and, when he took her hand to lead her away out of sight of the house, she yielded at once.
When they were safe in the field behind the hedge-- "Why did you make me come down, Tom ?" she whispered, half choked with fear, looking up in his face, which was radiant in the moonshine.
"Because I could not bear it one day longer," he answered.

"All this time I have been breaking my heart to get a word with you, and never seeing you except at church, and there you would never even look at me.
It is cruel of you, Letty.

I know you could manage it, if you liked, well enough.