You would have sworn that Robin looked for another place and could not see one, you would have sworn that they were shy of one another, and spoke scarcely a dozen sentences.

Yet they did very well each in the company of the other; and Robin, indeed, before he had finished his partridge, had conveyed to her that there was news that he had, and must give to her before the day was out.

She looked at him with enough dismay in her face for him at least to read it; for she knew by his manner that it would not be happy news.
So, too, when the fruit was done and dinner was over (for they had no opportunity to speak at any length), again you would have sworn that the last idea in his mind, as in hers, was that he should be the one to help her to her saddle.

Yet he did so; and he fetched her hawk for her, and settled her reins in her hand; and presently he on one side of her, with Mr.Fenton on the other side, were riding up through Padley chase; and the talk and the laughter went up too.
II Up on the high moors, in the frank-chase, here indeed was a day to make sad hearts rejoice.

The air was soft, as if spring were come before his time; and in the great wind that blew continually from the south-west, bearing the high clouds swiftly against the blue, ruffling the stiff heather-twigs and bilberry beneath--here was wine enough for any mourners.