Some hours he lay awake that night.

Should he write his hopes and wishes?
No: he would hear the answer from her own lips, and the next morning an opportunity appeared to present itself.
The vessel did not leave Dover till an hour before noon, and breakfast having been despatched by half-past nine, Mrs.Greville persuaded her daughter to take a gentle walk in the intervening time.

Herbert instantly offered to escort her.

Emmeline remained to assist Mrs.
Greville in some travelling arrangements, and Mr.Hamilton employed himself in some of those numberless little offices which active men take upon themselves in the business of a departure.

Mary shrunk with such evident reluctance from this arrangement, that for the first time Herbert doubted.
"You were not wont to shrink thus from accepting me as your companion," he said, fixing his large expressive eyes mournfully upon her, and speaking in a tone of such melancholy sweetness, that Mary hastily struggled to conceal the tear that started to her eye.