Noticing the difficulty with which he walked, and feeling the same extreme lassitude in her own limbs, she proposed that they should rest for a moment where the bracken was brown and shriveled beneath an oak-tree.

He assented.

Once more he gave a great sigh, and wiped his eyes with a childlike unconsciousness, and began to speak without a trace of his previous anger.

The idea came to her that they were like the children in the fairy tale who were lost in a wood, and with this in her mind she noticed the scattering of dead leaves all round them which had been blown by the wind into heaps, a foot or two deep, here and there.
"When did you begin to feel this, Katharine ?" he said; "for it isn't true to say that you've always felt it.

I admit I was unreasonable the first night when you found that your clothes had been left behind.
Still, where's the fault in that?
I could promise you never to interfere with your clothes again.