Come on, it is open at last." They passed into the garden and vanished.

A wild jealousy seized Godfrey, and he slipped after them with the intention of revealing himself to Isobel.

Inside the railings was a broad belt of shrubs bordered by a gravel path.

The pair walked along the path, Godfrey following at a distance, till they came to a recessed seat on which they sat down.

He halted behind a lilac bush ten paces or so away, not that he wanted to listen, but because he was ashamed to show himself.
Indeed, he stopped his ears with his fingers that he might not overhear their talk.