The thing had happened: it was: nothing could forbid or efface it.
Yet when she reached home, after forcing the astonished Mercury to canter up the entire length of Bayfield hill, she must walk straight to her room, and study her face in the glass.
"It has happened to you--to you! Why has it not transfigured you ?-- but then people would guess.

Your teeth stand out--well, not so very prominently--but they stand out, and that is why foreigners laugh at Englishwomen.

Yes, it has happened to you; but why?
how ?" It so happened that she must meet him the next day.

Narcissus had engaged him to make drawings of the Bayfield pavement, a new series to supersede hers in an enlarged edition of the treatise.

Every one of the _tessellae_ was to be drawn to scale, and she must meet him to-morrow in the library with her brother and receive instructions, for she had promised to help in taking measurements.
When the time came, and she entered the library, she did not indeed dare to lift her eyes.