They had passed the cemetery, and went forward now into the lonelier part of the road.

Then Trenholme thought of the warning Harkness had given him about the drunkard's violence.

The recollection made him hasten on, forgetting that his speed was almost too great for a woman.
In the stir of events we seldom realise to the full the facts with which we are dealing, certainly never perceive at first their full import.
Trenholme, however, after some minutes of tramping and thinking, felt that he had reason for righteous indignation, and became wroth.

He gave vent to strictures upon superficiality of character, modern love of excitement, and that silly egotism that, causing people to throw off rightful authority, leaves them an easy prey to false teachers.

He was not angry with Winifred--he excepted her; but against those who were leading her astray his words were harsh, and they would have flowed more freely had he not found language inadequate to express his growing perception of their folly.
When he had talked thus for some time Sophia answered, and he knew instantly, from the tone of her voice, that her tears had dried themselves.
"Are you and I able to understand the condition of heart that is not only resigned, but eager to meet Him Whom they hope to meet--able so fully to understand that we can judge its worth ?" He knew her face so well that he seemed to see the hint of sarcasm come in the arching of her handsome eyebrows as she spoke.
"I fear they realise their hope but little," he replied.