She could explain matters afterwards if necessary.

Then when they were alone, she would use her arts and her experience to make him commit himself.

After all, he was only a man, with a man's dislike of difficult or awkward situations.

She felt quite sufficient confidence in her own womanhood to carry her through any difficulty which might arise.
From Diana's Grove she heard each day the luncheon-gong from Castra Regis sound, and knew the hour when the servants would be in the back of the house.

She would enter the house at that hour, and, pretending that she could not make anyone hear her, would seek him in his own rooms.