On the other hand, if he had the good luck to see the graceful figure of his old playfellow, he felt that that was the next best thing to being actually in her company, and departed eventually in a more contented frame of mind.

Thus, when Dr.Dimsdale fondly imagined his son to be a mile away grappling with the mysteries of science, that undutiful lad was in reality perched within sixty yards of him, with his thoughts engrossed by very different matters.
Kate could not fail to understand what was going on.

However young and innocent a girl may be, there is always some subtle feminine instinct which warns her that she is loved.

Then first she realizes that she has passed the shadowy frontier line which divides the child-life from that of the woman.

Kate felt uneasy and perplexed, and half involuntarily she changed her manner towards him.
It had been frank and sisterly; now it became more distant and constrained.