But you must explain.' 'Explain!' cried Mrs.Thornburgh.

'I should think it explains itself.

At least if you'd been in this house for the last twenty-four hours you'd think so.

Since the moment when he first met her, it's been "Miss Leyburn," "Miss Leyburn," all the time.

One might have seen it with half an eye from the beginning.
Mrs.Thornburgh had not seen it with two eyes, as we know, till it was pointed out to her; but her imagination worked with equal liveliness backward or forward.
'He went to see you yesterday, didn't he--yes, I know he did--and he overtook her in the pony-carriage--the vicar saw them from across the valley--and he brought her back from your house, and then he kept William up till nearly twelve talking of her.