But since fate was kind, and his lady love no longer frowned upon him, he made the mistake of taking it for granted she neither asked nor expected him to explain his seeming neglect of her and his visit to Miss Georgie at Hartley.
She was not angry with him.

Therefore, he was free to turn his whole attention to this trouble which had come upon his closest friends.

He reached out, caught Evadna by the hand, pulled her close to him, and smiled upon her in a way to make her catch her breath in a most unaccountable manner.
But he did not say anything to her; he was a young man unused to dalliance when there were serious things at hand.
"I'm going down there and see what they're up to," he told Phoebe, giving Evadna's hand a squeeze and letting it go.

"I suspect there's something more than keeping the peace behind Baumberger's anxiety to have them left strictly alone.

The boys had better keep away, though." "Are you going down in the orchard ?" Evadna rounded her unbelievably blue eyes at him.