This was a suffering that he was hardly in a position to take seriously, and yet his heart yearned over her.

He thought also that she was pondering over the problem of her next responsibility, and the evidence of this came sooner than he had expected.
When they got to the place where his first track diverged straight to the shed, she and Morin stopped to exchange remarks; they evidently perceived in this the clearest evidence of all against him.

Had he not gone straight to the place where the accomplice had agreed to wait?
Then Madge fell back a little to where he was now plodding in the rear.

She accosted him in the soft tones that had from the first so charmed him, contrasting with her sister's voice as the tones of a reed-pipe contrast with those from metal, or as the full voice of the cuckoo with the shrill chirp of the sparrow.

The soft voice was very serious, the manner more than sedate, the words studied.
'I am afraid that nothing that I can say will persuade you to alter a way of life which you seem to have chosen, but it seems to me very sad that one of your ability should so degrade himself.' She stopped with a little gasp for breath, as if frightened at her own audacity.