Another gathers the flower.
He watched and tended and trembled over the tender nestling.

The young bird is trying her wings before his eyes; soon she will spread them, and fly away to a newer nest and a younger bosom.
In this case, however, the young people had their troubles too, and their pretty courtship was soon interrupted by an unwelcome and unexpected visitor, who, as a rule, avoided that part, for the very reason that Colonel Clifford frequented it.

However, he came there to-day to speak to Hope.

Mr.Bartley, for he it was, would have caught the lovers if he had come silently; but he was talking to a pitman as he came, and Mary's quick ears heard his voice round the corner.
"Papa!" cried she.

"Oh, don't let him see us! Hide!" "Where ?" "Anywhere--in here--quick!" and she flew into Hope's workshop, which indeed offered great facilities for hiding.