The longer Tommy remained silent, the more, he knew, did Elspeth suspect him.

He would have liked to say, in a careless voice, "Rather pretty, isn't she ?" but he felt that this little Elspeth would see through him at once.
For at the first glance he had seen what Grizel was, and a thrill of joy passed through him as he drank her in; it was but the joy of the eyes for the first moment, but it ran to his heart to say, "This is the little hunted girl that was!" and Tommy was moved with a manly gladness that the girl who once was so fearful of the future had grown into this.

The same unselfish delight in her for her own sake came over him again when he shook hands with her in Aaron's parlor.

This glorious creature with the serene eyes and the noble shoulders had been the hunted child of the Double Dykes! He would have liked to race back into the past and bring little Grizel here to look.

How many boyish memories he recalled! and she was in every one of them.