As she had come into the grove immediately after breakfast, and as Harold had almost immediately joined her, and as the interview between them had been but short, she must have lain on the ground for more than three hours.

She rose at once, trembling in every limb.

A new fear began to assail her; that she had been missed at home, and that some one might have come to look for her.

Up to now she had not been able to feel the full measure of pain regarding what had passed, but which would, she knew, come to her in the end.

It was too vague as yet; she could not realise that it had really been.