She hesitated about accepting the shoes, and didn't ask questions about everything as she used to do.

Nor was she so willing to stand and talk with him alone by the boat--she liked to have him up within hearing of the others.
"Don't you see how high the sea is running ?" he said, and tried to persuade her that the boat would be dashed to pieces on the rocks.

But she saw that it wasn't true, and went up with a little toss of her head alone.

He followed her.
She must have learned all this in Arendal, where in the course of the autumn she had been confirmed, and where she had lived with her aunt.
But she had grown marvellously handsome in that time--so much so, indeed, that Salve was almost taken aback when he saw her; and when they said good-bye, it was no longer in the old laughing tones, but with some slight embarrassment on his side--he didn't seem to know exactly how matters lay between them.
After that she filled his head so completely that he had not a thought for anything else..