He loved Grace, and Osborn would never approve.

Kit knew Osborn's pride and admitted that his anger was, perhaps, not altogether unwarranted.

For that matter, he doubted if Grace knew how far his rash hopes had led him.

Then he thrilled as he remembered that when she pushed him back to the hedge, and afterwards when they left their hiding place, something had hinted that she did know and acknowledge him her lover.
In the meantime, it was a relief to drive the sheep down the dale; he could not think while he was occupied and thought was disturbing.

He put the sheep into a field and overtook Osborn as he went up the farm lonning in the dark.