He had often laid his difficulties before her, and guessed, in some ways hoped, that perhaps she now had need of him.

At the same time, she carried on her life with such independence that he scarcely expected any confidence to be expressed in words.
"You have fled, too, then ?" he said, looking at her cloak.

Katharine had forgotten to remove this token of her star-gazing.
"Fled ?" she asked.

"From whom d'you mean?
Oh, the family party.

Yes, it was hot down there, so I went into the garden." "And aren't you very cold ?" Henry inquired, placing coal on the fire, drawing a chair up to the grate, and laying aside her cloak.