And to have a fellow dawdling about the house all day, sauntering into the flower-garden, peering about everywhere, and having a kind of right to put all manner of unexpected questions, was anything but agreeable.

It was only Ellinor that clung to his presence--clung as though some shadow of what might happen before they met again had fallen on her spirit.

As soon as he had left the house she flew up to a spare bedroom window, to watch for the last glimpse of the fly which was taking him into the town.

And then she kissed the part of the pane on which his figure, waving an arm out of the carriage window, had last appeared; and went down slowly to gather together all the things he had last touched--the pen he had mended, the flower he had played with, and to lock them up in the little quaint cabinet that had held her treasures since she was a tiny child.
Miss Monro was, perhaps, very wise in proposing the translation of a difficult part of Dante for a distraction to Ellinor.

The girl went meekly, if reluctantly, to the task set her by her good governess, and by- and-by her mind became braced by the exertion.
Ralph's people were not very slow in discovering that something had not gone on quite smoothly with him at Ford Bank.