But the impression received into her mind was that it was one of the three; and Dolly could not be persuaded out of that to this very day.
"Hush--sh--sh!" cried she to her sweetheart, "it's one o' the young masters." The quick steps passed on: but whether they turned into the yard, or took the side path which would conduct round to the front entrance, or bore right across, and so went out into the public road, Dolly did not notice.

Very shortly after this--time passes swiftly when people are courting, of which fact the Italians have a proverb--Dan Duff came bursting back again, calling, and crying, and telling the tidings of Rachel Frost.

This was the substance of what Mrs.Tynn told Mr.Verner.
"Dolly said nothing of this before!" he exclaimed.
"Not she, sir.

She didn't dare confess that she'd been off all that while from her dairy.

She let drop a word, and I have got it out of her piecemeal.