I took my leave of Lady Ladislaw when the departure of Evesham broke the party into fragments. I started down the drive towards the rectory and then the railings by the paddock and struck across beyond the . I could not go home with the immense burthen of thought and new ideas and emotions that had come upon me. I felt confused and shattered to incoherence by the new quality of Mary's atmosphere. I turned my steps towards the wilder, lonelier part of the park beyond the Wood, a............