He saw only simple and strong interest on the face of a simple and strong country girl.

He had expected a different response and a different expression.
He put his tongue in the side of his cheek with the air of an uncontrolled boy who has played a trump-card in vain.

"Say," said he, "didn't you, though ?" "Didn't I ?" said Eliza, and after a minute she said, "What ?" The young man looked at her and smiled.

His smile suggested a cunning recognition that she was deceiving him by pretended dulness.
At this Eliza looked excessively offended, and, with her head aloft, began to push on the little sleigh with the baby in it.
"Beg your pardon, ma'am," he said with sudden humility, but with a certain lingering in his voice as if he could not relinquish his former idea as suddenly as he wished to appear to do.

"I see I've made a mistake." Eliza hesitated in her onward movement.