Of course it was with the "pernicious" Isobel and the place appointed was the beautiful old Abbey Church.

Here they knew that they would be undisturbed, as Mr.Knight was to sleep at a county town twenty miles away, where on the following morning he had business as the examiner of a local Grammar School, and must leave at once to catch his train.

So, when watching from an upper window, he had seen the gig well on the road, Godfrey departed to his tryst.
Arriving in the dim and beauteous old fane, the first thing he saw was Isobel standing alone in the chancel, right in the heart of a shaft of light that fell on her through the rich-coloured glass of the great west window, for now it was late in the afternoon.

She wore a very unusual white garment that became her well, but had no hat on her head.
Perhaps this was because she had taken the fancy to do her plentiful fair hair in the old Plantagenet fashion, that is in two horns, which, with much ingenuity she had copied more or less correctly from the brass of an ancient, noble lady, whereof the two intended to take an impression.

Also she had imitated some of the other peculiarities of that picturesque costume, including the long, hanging sleeves.