'Master John Ridd, it is high time for you to go home to your mother.

I love your mother very much from what you have told me about her, and I will not have her cheated.' 'If you truly love my mother,' said I, very craftily 'the only way to show it is by truly loving me.' Upon that she laughed at me in the sweetest manner, and with such provoking ways, and such come-and-go of glances, and beginning of quick blushes, which she tried to laugh away, that I knew, as well as if she herself had told me, by some knowledge (void of reasoning, and the surer for it), I knew quite well, while all my heart was burning hot within me, and mine eyes were shy of hers, and her eyes were shy of mine; for certain and for ever this I knew--as in a glory--that Lorna Doone had now begun and would go on to love me..