He was so carried away by his feelings that he said the word aloud.
"Where ?" asked Elspeth, looking at the window.
"Was it not she who passed just now ?" he replied promptly; and they were still discussing his mistake when Grizel did pass, but only to stop at the door.

She came in.
"My brother must have the second sight," declared Elspeth, gaily, "for he saw you coming before you came"; and she told what had happened, while Grizel looked happily at Tommy, and Tommy looked apprehensively at her.

Grizel, he might have seen, was not wearing the tragic face of sacrifice; it was a face shining with gladness, a girl still too happy in his nobility to think remorsefully of her own misdeeds.

To let him know that she was proud of him, that was what she had come for chiefly, and she was even glad that Elspeth was there to hear.

It was an excuse to her to repeat Corp's story, and she told it with defiant looks at Tommy that said, "You are so modest, you want to stop me, but Elspeth will listen; it is nearly as sweet to Elspeth as it is to me, and I shall tell her every word, yes, and tell her a great deal of it twice." It was not modesty which made Tommy so anxious that she should think less of him, but naturally it had that appearance.