But we have first to move into the manor-house, and we think of staying at Torquay whilst that is going on.

Meanwhile, instead of going on a honeymoon scamper by ourselves, we have come home to fetch you, and go all together to Bath for two or three weeks.' Elfride assented pleasantly, even gladly; but she saw that, by this marriage, her father and herself had ceased for ever to be the close relations they had been up to a few weeks ago.

It was impossible now to tell him the tale of her wild elopement with Stephen Smith.
He was still snugly housed in her heart.

His absence had regained for him much of that aureola of saintship which had been nearly abstracted during her reproachful mood on that miserable journey from London.
Rapture is often cooled by contact with its cause, especially if under awkward conditions.

And that last experience with Stephen had done anything but make him shine in her eyes.