To find her here, however, in these somewhat romantic circumstances, magnified that by-gone and transitory tenderness to indescribable proportions.
On entering Little Hintock he found himself regarding it in a new way--from the Hintock House point of view rather than from his own and the Melburys'.

The household had all gone to bed, and as he went up-stairs he heard the snore of the timber-merchant from his quarter of the building, and turned into the passage communicating with his own rooms in a strange access of sadness.

A light was burning for him in the chamber; but Grace, though in bed, was not asleep.

In a moment her sympathetic voice came from behind the curtains.
"Edgar, is she very seriously hurt ?" Fitzpiers had so entirely lost sight of Mrs.Charmond as a patient that he was not on the instant ready with a reply.
"Oh no," he said.

"There are no bones broken, but she is shaken.