She noticed that they appeared to be conversing without constraint.
"I had the simplicity to be pleased," Mrs.Fyne commented with a dry little laugh.

"Pleased for both their sakes." Captain Anthony shook off his indolence from that day forth, and accompanied Miss Flora frequently on her morning walks.

Mrs.Fyne remained pleased.

She could now forget them comfortably and give herself up to the delights of audacious thought and literary composition.

Only a week before the blow fell she, happening to raise her eyes from the paper, saw two figures seated on the grass under the shade of the elms.