'Most certainly not,' said Wilmet; 'I am much more afraid of the other thing. I always thought her choosing to stay at Repworth suspicious!'
'I don't believe it! I saw them come up after she had been lost at Ewmouth, as innocent as lambs! Her manner was perfectly simple and natural.'
'I don't understand Robina's manner,' said Wilmet.
Walking down the hilly slope of the path, they presently were aware of a pair with arms and hands doubly interlaced, in the fashion peculiar to the circumstances.
'John!'
'Wilmet! Was there never a blackberry lane in our lives?'
'Not without—Robina!'
They turned, but without confusion, without loosing of arms, or if Robina had attempted it, it was checked.
'Oh! there you are, John!' exclaimed Will 'So you see we have settled it at last!'
'I do not know what you mean,' said Wilmet, gravely.