Do you really believe he loves Hope Wayne ?" "I don't know," was the low reply.
"I know, Amy." The two women had risen, and were walking, with their arms clasped around each other, up and down the room.

They stopped at the window and looked out.

As they did so, their eyes fell simultaneously upon the man of whom they were speaking, who was standing at the back of his lofts, looking up at the window, which was a shrine to him.
"There she stood and smiled at me," he said to himself whenever he looked at it.
As their eyes met, he smiled and waved his hand.

With his eyes and head he asked, as when he had first seen her there, "May I come up ?" and he waved his handkerchief.
The two women looked at him.

As Amy did so, she felt as if there had been a long and gloomy war; and now, in his eager eyes and waving hand, she saw the illumination and waving flags of victory and peace.
She smiled as she looked, and nodded No to him with her head.
But Aunt Martha nodded Yes so vehemently that Lawrence Newt immediately disappeared from his window.
Alarmed at his coming, doubtful of Aunt Martha's intention, Amy Waring suddenly cried, "Oh! Aunt Martha!" and was gone in a moment.