“You have not left home this morning, then?”
“No; I was not at home last night.”
“I think I must be going.”
“I will walk a little way with you.”
“My way is over the bridge to the farmhouse, where I am staying.”
“I will go as far as you go.”
Catharine turned towards the bridge.
“Is it the house beyond the meadows?”
“Yes.”
It is curious how indifferent conversation often is just at the moment when the two who are talking may be trembling with passion.