“Oh, thank you! thank you!” was all she said.
“Didst thou come hither by thyself, lady?” resumed Bernard.
“Even so,” answered Evaline. “The sheriff’s men are at the Grange, waiting to apprehend my cousin, Don Felix di Corva; and I thought it best to steal out unnoticed.”
“Thou didst well, and bravely,” returned Bernard. “But ’tis a lonely road, and, if thou wilt give me leave, I will be thy conductor home.”
“Thou wilt make my heart light, an’ thou wilt,” said Evaline, eagerly.
“No more!” answered Bernard. “Let us on!”
They set forward accordingly, and, without resuming their discourse, proceeded to the road. Thence they passed down the adjoining hill, at the extremity of the churchyard, into Neville Park, and so on to the vicinity of the mansion.
Bernard drew up when they came nigh the mansion.