She can look out and see you, almost wherever you happen to be on your farm." "I don't believe Miriam will be content to sit still and watch anybody," replied Ralph.

"I wonder where she can be;" and twice he called her, once directing his voice up toward the haymows and once out into the open air.
Dora still leaned on the bar and looked out.
"It would be nice if we could see her walking somewhere in the fields," she said, and she and Ralph both swept the landscape with their eyes, but they saw nothing like a moving girl in shade or sunshine.
Miss Bannister was not in the least embarrassed, as she stood here with this young man whom she had met such a little time before.

She did not altogether feel that she was alone with him.

The thought that any moment the young man's sister might make one of the party, produced a sensation not wholly unlike that of knowing she was already there.
The view of the far-off hills with the shadows across their sides and their forest-covered tops glistening in the sunshine was very attractive, and there was a blossomy perfume in the outside air which mingled charmingly with the hay-scents from within; but Dora felt that it would not do to protract her pleasure in these things, especially as she noticed signs of a slight uneasiness on the face of her companion.
Probably he wanted to go and look for his sister, so they walked slowly over the floor of the great hayloft, and out of the little door where the hen and chickens had come in, and Ralph accompanied the young lady to her carriage.
"I am sure I shall find Thomas and the horses fast asleep," said she, "for I have made a long call, or, at least, have tried to make one, and you must tell your sister that my stay proves how much I wanted to see her.

I hope she will call on me the first time she comes to Thorbury." "Oh, I shall drive her over on purpose," said Ralph, and, with a smile, Miss Bannister declared that would be charming.
When the carriage had rolled upon the smooth road outside of Cobhurst, Miss Dora drew off her left glove and looked at her wrist.