But inwardly her quick dramatising imagination was already constructing her own future and his.

The ambition to rule leapt in her, and the delight in conquest.

It was with a delicious sense of her own power, and of the general fulness of her new life, that she said, "I _am_ large-minded enough! You have been very kind, and I have been very wild and indiscreet.

But I don't regret: I am sure, if you can help me, you will." There was a little pause.

They were standing at the last gate before the miry village road began, and almost in sight of the little vicarage.
Aldous Raeburn, with his hand on the gate, suddenly gathered a spray of travellers'-joy out of the hedge beside him.
"That was a promise, I think, and I keep the pledge of it," he said, and with a smile put the cluster of white seed-tufts and green leaves into one of the pockets of his shooting jacket.
"Oh, don't tie me down!" said Marcella, laughing, but flushing also.
"And don't you think, Mr.Raeburn, that you might open that gate?
At least, we can't get the scissors and the wire unless you do.".