"This was no harmless action, it looks like malice prepense, unless indeed they excited her anger unintentionally."
"That is exactly what I have been thinking, and I intend finding out more about it when I see her."
"I should be cautious how I went to see her; she may not be so harmless as you imagine. At all events do not go alone; I will accompany you with pleasure if you will allow me?"
"Thank you, I am not afraid. What harm could she do me? and as for her foretelling future events I simply do not believe it, and should pay little or no heed to anything she told, whether for good or ill," said Amy, laughing as they reached the Terrace, when, wishing him good-bye, she went in.
"I hope you have had a pleasant walk with Miss Neville, Mr. Vavasour," said Anne Bennet, coming up just behind as Amy disappeared, "Mr. Hall and I have been close to you nearly all the way home, but you were too busily engaged to perceive us."
"I hope you also have had a pleasant walk. Have you been far?" asked Mr. Vavasour, evading a direct answer.
"An awful distance!" answered her companion, evidently a clergyman, by the cut of his coat and white neck band.
"You know nothing at all about it," exclaimed Anne, turning sharp round, "or I am sure you would not call it far; why we only went across the fields round by the church and so home again. I thought you said you enjoyed it extremely?"
"I am ready to take another this moment if you like. What say you? shall we make a start of it?"