Muggins cracked his whip and the fly moved off, leaving the vicar and his pupil standing together at the iron wicket gate before the house.
"Well?
Do you think Angleside got through ?" asked Mr.Ambrose, rather anxiously.
Short said he thought Angleside was safe.

He hoped the vicar would say something about the lady, but to his annoyance, he said nothing at all.
John could not ask questions, seeing it was none of his business and was fain to content himself with thinking of the lady's face and voice.

He felt very uncomfortable at dinner.

He thought the excellent Mrs.Ambrose eyed him with unusual severity, as though suspecting what he was thinking about, and he thought the vicar's grey eye twinkled occasionally with the pleasant sense of possessing a secret he had no intention of imparting.
As a matter of fact Mrs.Ambrose was supremely unconscious of the fact that John had seen the lady, and looked at him with some curiosity, observing that he seemed nervous and blushed from time to time and was more silent than usual.

She came to the conclusion that he had been working too hard, as usual, and that night requested him to take two little pellets of aconite, and to repeat the dose in the morning.