I then checked myself, and made myself known to you, by a tap upon your shoulder.
"I could pardon and account for some trifling alarm; but your trepidation and blushes were excessive.

You hurried the paper out of sight, and seemed too anxious to discover whether I knew the contents to allow yourself to make any inquiries.

I wondered at these appearances of consternation, but did not reason on them until I had retired.

When alone, these incidents suggested themselves to my reflections anew.
"To what scene, or what interview, I asked, did you allude?
Your disappearance on a former evening, my tracing you to the recess in the bank, your silence on my first and second call, your vague answers and invincible embarrassment, when you, at length, ascended the hill, I recollected with new surprize.

Could this be the summerhouse alluded to?
A certain timidity and consciousness had generally attended you, when this incident and this recess had been the subjects of conversation.
Nay, I imagined that the last time that adventure was mentioned, which happened in the presence of Carwin, the countenance of the latter betrayed some emotion.