At the turn of the stair she glanced back, and his eyes were still begging her to hurry.

It was a gracious memory to her in the after years, for she never saw him again.
As soon as she was gone he returned to the hall, and taking from a peg a cloak with a Mother Goose hood, brought it to Lady Pippinworth, who had watched her mamma trip upstairs.
"Did I say I was going out ?" she asked.
"Yes," said Tommy, and she rose to let him put the elegant thing round her.

She was one of those dangerous women who look their best when you are helping them to put on their cloaks.
"Now," he instructed her, "pull the hood over your head." "Is it so cold as that ?" she said, obeying.
"I want you to wear it," he answered.

What he meant was that she never looked quite so impudent as in her hood, and his vanity insisted that she should be armed to the teeth before they resumed hostilities.

The red light was in his eyes as he drew her into the garden where Grizel lay..