If I had not gone away I should have made a fool of myself, though I have no right to interfere with her, and her father and mother were there and seemed in no way put out.
"I will go away and have a look at that lot of young cattle I bought the other day.

I don't know that I ever saw a more likely lot." It was dark when George returned.

On his way home he took a path that passed near the house whence he had turned away so angrily a few hours before.

It was not the nearest way, but somehow he always took it, even at hours when there was no chance of his getting the most distant sight of Martha.
Presently he stopped suddenly, for from behind the wall that bounded the kitchen garden of the farm he heard voices.

A man was speaking.
"You must make your choice at once, darling, for as I have told you I am off tomorrow.