Asahel and Elizabeth stayed in the sunset glow to see Winthrop finish his part of the work; and then they walked up together.

Elizabeth kept her position on one side of the oars, but seemed as moody as ever, till they were about half way from the rocks; then suddenly she looked up into Winthrop's face and said, "Thank you.

I ought to have said it before." He bowed a little and smiled, in a way that set Elizabeth a thinking.

It was not like a common farmer's boy.

It spoke him as quiet in his own standing as she was in hers; and yet he certainly had come home that day in his shirt sleeves, and with his mower's jacket over his arm?
It was very odd.
"What was it you said that strawberry-place was in the shadow of sometimes ?" "Wut-a-qut-o ?" "What's that ?" "The big mountain over there.