She knew the spot, she told him, and there at dusk upon the following day she would come to him.

Her woman must accompany her, and for all that he feared such an addition to the party might retard their flight, yet he could not gainsay her resolution.

Her uncle, he learnt from her, was absent from Sheringham; he had set out four days ago for London.

For her father she would leave a letter, and in this matter Crispin urged her to observe circumspection, giving no indication of the direction of her journey.
In all he said, now that matters were arranged he was calm, practical, and unloverlike, and for all that she would he had been less self-possessed, her faith in him caused her, upon reflection, even to admire this which she conceived to be restraint.

Yet, when at parting he did no more than courteously bend before her, and kiss her hand as any simpering gallant might have done, she was all but vexed, and not to be outdone in coldness, she grew frigid.