But, O Cuthbert, love is so strong--so hard a task master.

Where he drives, it seems that one needs must go;" and she looked up at him with such arch appeal that he felt those glances would go far to soften the sternest parental heart.
"In truth, I believe thee, fair coz, and I will keep thy secret faithfully.

It is safe with me; and I trust that all will end happily when the lost treasure shall return to the house of Trevlyn." And talking eagerly upon this theme, which was also to be kept secret from all the world besides, the cousins walked towards the house.

Cuthbert received a warm and hearty greeting from all his kinsfolks there, who were pleased that he should have kept his promise and have come to see them with the long days of early summer.
Sir Richard and his wife were both pleased with the fashion in which the youth had developed; his intelligence and information were now plainly apparent, and had taken a fresh impetus from the new surroundings in which he had found himself.

He could talk with discrimination and insight on all the leading topics of the day, had plainly lost much of his old rusticity of thought and speech, and had become an interesting and self-possessed youth.
But his errand was really to Philip, and to him he spoke in private of his sister's story, and how she had promised to obey her father and to see him no more.