They saw the objects of their desire vanishing through a gap in the hedge into a distant field.

They must pursue, they must go hotly to work.

Mrs.Bell panted and puffed, and Matty stopped once to breathe hard.
"Courage, child," said the mother.

"We'll soon be up with them.

I'm not the woman to leave an innocent young man alone with that siren." "Mother! You call Beatrice a siren ?" "Well, and what is she, Matty, when she takes your lawful sweetheart away before your very eyes?
But here, we're in hailing distance, now, and I'll shout.