"You startled me," she said, smiling faintly; "I never meet any one here. How came you to be walking here? Did you come to meet me?"
It was impossible not to perceive that Maggie felt herself a child again.
"Yes, I did," said philip, still embarrassed; "I wished to see you very much. I watched a long while yesterday on the bank near your house to see if you would come out, but you never came. Then I watched again to-day,and when I saw the way you took, I kept you in sight and came down the bank, behind there. I hope you will not be displeased with me."