But he is a man and her lover'; and if she loves him, in the end love will conquer--must conquer.

For his more modern sense, deeply Christianized as it is, assumes almost without argument the sacredness of passion and its claim--wherein a vast difference between himself and that solitary wrestler in Marrisdale.
Meanwhile he kept all his hopes and fears to himself.

Mrs.Thornburgh was dying to talk to him; but though his mobile, boyish temperament made it impossible for him to disguise his change of mood, there was in him a certain natural Dignity which life greatly developed, but which made it always possible for him to hold his own against curiosity and indiscretion.

Mrs.Thornburgh had to hold her peace.

As for the vicar, he developed what were for him a surprising number of new topics of conversation, and in the late afternoon took Elsmere a run up the fells to the nearest fragment of the Roman road which runs, with such magnificent disregard of the humors of Mother Earth, over the very top of High Street toward Penrith and Carlisle.
Next day it looked as though after many waverings, the characteristic Westmoreland weather had descended upon them in good earnest.