again in more impetuous tones and then looked round at the who turned the too felt that the could not be ended there informing the man that a gentleman had come to see her with whom she wished to walk a little way she moved off with d across the field when they reached the first section he held out his hand to help her over it but she stepped forward on the of the earth rolls as if she did not see him you will not marry me and make me a self respecting man he repeated as soon as they were over the i cannot but why you know i have no affection for you but you would get to feel that in time perhaps � as soon as you really could forgive me never why so positive i love somebody else the words seemed to astonish him you do he cried somebody else but has not a sense of what is morally right and proper any weight with you no no no � don t say that anyhow then your love for this other man may be only a passing feeling which you will overcome no yes yes why not i cannot tell you you must in honour well then i have married him by of the d he exclaimed and he stopped dead and gazed at her i did not wish to tell � i did not mean to she pleaded it is a secret here or at any rate but dimly known so will you please will you ke from questioning me you must remember that we are now strangers strangers � are we strangers for a moment a flash of his old marked his face but he it down is that man our husband he asked mechanically by a sign the who turned the machine that man she said proudly i should think not who then do not ask what i do not wish to tell she begged and flashed her appeal to him from her face and lash eyes d was disturbed but i only ask for your sake he retorted hotly angels of heaven � god me for such an expression � i came here i swear as i thought for your good � don t look at me so � i cannot stand your looks there never were such eyes y before christianity or since there � i won t lose my head i dare not i own that the sight of you has up my love for you which i believed was extinguished with all such feelings but i thought that our marriage t be a for us both the husband is by the wife and the wife is by the husband i said to but my plan is dashed from me and i must bear the disappointment he reflected with his eyes on the ground married married well tiiat being so he added quite calmly tearing the slowly into and putting them in his pocket that being prevented i should like to do some good to you and by the convert husband whoever he may be there are many questions that i am tempted to ask but i will not do so of course in opposition to your wishes though if i could know your husband i might more easily benefit him and you is he on this farm no she murmured he is far away far away you what sort of husband can he be o do not speak against him it was through you he found out ah is it so that s sad yes but to stay away from you � to leave you to work like this he does not leave me to work she cried springing to the defence of the absent one with all her he don t know it it is by my own arrangement then does he write i � i cannot tell you there are things which are private to ourselves of course that means that he does not you are a deserted wife my fair in an impulse he suddenly to take her hand the glove was on it and he seized only the rough leather fingers which did not the life or shape of those within you must not � you must not she cried fearfully slipping her hand from the glove as from a pocket and leaving it in his grasp o will you go away � for the sake of me and my husband � go in the name of your own christianity yes yes i will he said abruptly and thrusting the glove back to her turned to leave facing however he said as god is my judge i meant no hi in taking your hand a of hoofs on the soil of the field which they had not noticed in their ceased close behind them and a voice her ear s by op the d what the devil are you doing away from your work at this time o day farmer had the two figures from the distance and had ridden across to learn what was their business in his field don t speak like that to her said d his face with something that was not christianity indeed and what mid pa sons have to do with she who is the fellow asked d turning to she went close up to him go � i do beg you she said what and leave you to that t i can see in his face what a he is he won t hurt me he s not in love with me i can leave at lady day well i have no right but to obey i suppose but � well good bye her whom she dreaded more than her having reluctantly disappeared the farmer continued his which took with the greatest coolness that sort of attack being independent of sex to have as a master 