"The night you went to sleep in the garden at Wanhope."
"Oh! when you kissed me?"
"When I—?"
Isabel was speechless.
"How do you know I kissed you, Isabel? I thought you were asleep."
"So I was," said Isabel, blushing deeply. "Oh! Captain Hyde, I wasn't pretending! But I woke up directly after, and heard a rustling in the wood, and I—I knew, don't ask me: I could feel -"
"This?"
"Yes," Isabel murmured, resigning herself.
"How strange!" said Lawrence under his breath. "You were asleep and you felt me kiss you?"
She looked up at him through her eyelashes. "Is that so strange?"