She crossed it.

Yet another gate gave her entrance to the garden of Little Beeding.

In a moment Hubbard announced: "Mrs.Ballantyne"; and Stella came into the room and stood near to the door with a certain constraint in her attitude and a timid watchfulness in her big eyes.

She had the look of a deer.

It seemed to Dick that at one abrupt movement she would turn and run.
Mr.Hazlewood pressed forward to greet her and she smiled with a warmth of gratitude.