He explained that other matters had upset his temper that day, and he had momentarily yielded to an irritated belief that everything was against him.

Helen watched him enter the park; she pretended that she was going in to Mrs.Eastham's.

She could see the lighted windows of the library, and she wondered why he did not go inside, but imagined that at the distance she might easily be mistaken.

At last she ran off to the rectory.

Again she lingered in the garden, devoutly wishing that all might be well between Alan and me.