Some of the pew-fronts in the church had panels elaborately carved in flat and shallow relief--fine Jacobean designs, all of them.

He took careful rubbings of their traceries, and set to work to copy them on the face of his crosses.
One afternoon, some three weeks after the Squire's funeral, he happened to return to the house for a tracing which he had forgotten, and found Honoria seated in the kitchen and talking with his father and mother.

She was dressed in black, of course, and either this or the solemnity of her visit gave her quite a grown-up look.

But, to be sure, she was mistress of Tredinnis now, and a child no longer.
Taffy guessed the meaning of her visit at once.

And no doubt this act of formal reconciliation between Tredinnis House and the Parsonage had cost her some nervousness.