'You would not think it worth while to give up this wild business and live for me alone ?' 'I have never looked at it like that.' 'And you won't promise and wait till I am ready ?' 'I cannot give you my word to-night.' And, looking thoughtfully down, she gradually moved and moved away, going into the adjoining room, and closing the door between them.

She remained there in the dark till he was tired of waiting, and had gone up to his own chamber.
Poor Stockdale was dreadfully depressed all the next day by the discoveries of the night before.

Lizzy was unmistakably a fascinating young woman, but as a minister's wife she was hardly to be contemplated.
'If I had only stuck to father's little grocery business, instead of going in for the ministry, she would have suited me beautifully!' he said sadly, until he remembered that in that case he would never have come from his distant home to Nether-Moynton, and never have known her.
The estrangement between them was not complete, but it was sufficient to keep them out of each other's company.

Once during the day he met her in the garden-path, and said, turning a reproachful eye upon her, 'Do you promise, Lizzy ?' But she did not reply.

The evening drew on, and he knew well enough that Lizzy would repeat her excursion at night--her half- offended manner had shown that she had not the slightest intention of altering her plans at present.