He had never reverted to that other subject.

But yet Fanny knew that it was coming, and when she had questioned Harry about his troubles she had been thinking also of her own.
It was now the middle of May, and the Spring was giving way to the early Summer almost before the Spring had itself arrived.

It is so, I think, in these latter years.

The sharpness of March prolongs itself almost through April, and then, while we are still hoping for the Spring, there falls upon us suddenly a bright, dangerous, delicious gleam of Summer.
The lane from Cumberly Green was no longer muddy, and Fanny could go backward and forward between the parsonage and her distant school without that wading for which feminine apparel is so unsuited.

One evening, just as she had finished her work, Mr.Saul's head appeared at the school-door, and he asked her whether she were about to return home.
As soon as she saw his eye and heard his voice, she feared that the day was come.