She was unconscious of the approach of the pedestrian from the north, and did not see him until she had opened the gate and he was almost beside her.

Then she looked up, and as she saw him she started visibly.

And if this thing had happened to Robert Lamhorn, he would have had a thought far beyond the horizon of faint-hearted Bibbs's thoughts.

Lamhorn, indeed, would have spoken his thought.

He would have said: "You jumped because you were thinking of me!".