Yet not much had come of it.

If the worst came to the worst, the lawyer had offered the boy a place in his office; Anthony Babington had proposed his coming to Dethick if his father turned him out; while Robin himself inclined to a third alternative--the begging of his father to give him a sum of money and be rid of him; after which he proposed, with youthful vagueness, to set off for London and see what he could do there.
Marjorie, however, had seemed strangely uninterested in such proposals.
She had listened with patience, bowing her head in assent to each, beginning once or twice a word of criticism, and stopping herself before she had well begun.

But she had looked at Robin with more than interest; and her mother had found her more than once on her knees in her own chamber, in tears.

Yet she had said nothing, except that she would speak her mind after Easter, perhaps.
And now, it seemed, she was doing it.
* * * * * "You have had no other thought ?" she said again, "besides those of which you talked with my father ?" They were walking together through the woods, half a mile along the Hathersage valley.

Beneath them the ground fell steeply away, above them it rose as steeply to the right.