One is not obliged to climb into the tree now.

See: Demetrius helped me to drag it close, and we nailed on these two arms," and she pointed to a giant oak not far from them, which John Derringham pretended to recognize.
He tried his best to get her to talk to him, but some cloud of timid aloofness on her part seemed to hang between them, and very soon below the copse they came to the one vulnerable part in all the haw-haw's length.

She showed him how to take the bricks out and where to place his feet, and pointed out how secluded from any eye the place was.

Then, as he climbed down and then up again, and looked across at her from Wendover lands, she said a sedate good-by, and turning, went on among the thickly growing saplings of the copse and, never looking back, was soon out of sight.
John Derringham watched her disappear with a strange feeling of ruffled disquietude in his heart..