I noticed that you were very busy for awhile, and when you stopped working and sat down in that disconsolate attitude, I guessed some terrible misfortune must have happened.

So I came." Lucia looked at him gravely, a little troubled.
"I never saw anybody like you," she said; "you seem always to know when one is in a dilemma." Maurice laughed.
"If all dilemmas were like this, I might easily get up a character for being a sort of Providence; but come and show me what else there is to do." They worked together for an hour, by the end of which, all was restored nearly to its former neatness.

Mrs.Costello came out and found them busy at the vine.

Maurice was on a ladder nailing it up, while Lucia handed him the nails and strips of cloth, as he wanted them.

She felt a lively pleasure in seeing them thus occupied.