CHAPTER V 

What had passed between Smilash and Henrietta remained unknown except to themselves. Agatha had seen Henrietta clasping his neck in her arms, but had not waited to hear the exclamation of "Sidney, Sidney," which followed, nor to see him press her face to his breast in his anxiety to stifle her voice as he said, "My darling love, don't screech I implore you. Confound it, we shall have the whole pack here in a moment. Hush!" 

"Don't leave me again, Sidney," she entreated, clinging faster to him as his perplexed gaze, wandering towards the entrance to the shrubbery, seemed to forsake her. A din of voices in that direction precipitated his irresolution. 

"We must run away, Hetty," he said "Hold fast about my neck, and don't strangle me. Now then." He lifted her upon his shoulder and ran swiftly through the grounds. When they were stopped by the wall, he placed her atop of it, scrabbled over, and made her jump into his arms. Then he staggered away with her across the fields, gasping out in reply to the inarticulate remonstrances which burst from her as he stumbled and reeled at every hillock, "Your weight is increasing at the rate of a stone a second, my love. If you stoop you will break my back. Oh, Lord, here's a ditch!" 

"Let me down," screamed Henrietta in an ecstasy of delight and apprehension. "You will hurt yourself, and--Oh, DO take--" 

He struggled through a dry ditch as she spoke, and came out upon a grassy place that bordered the towpath of the canal. Here, on the bank of a hollow where the moss was dry and soft, he seated her, threw himself prone on his elbows before her, and said, panting:  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What did Agatha witness?
2. What was Agatha a witness to?
3. What had Agatha been present for?
Q2:
1. What did Henrietta cry out?
2. What was Henrietta's exclamation?
3. What did Henrietta yelp?
Q3:
1. Where did Henrietta press her face?
2. Where was Henrietta's face buried?
3. In what location did Henrietta hide her face?
Q4:
1. Did Henrietta want Sidney to leave?
2. Was Henrietta wishing for Sidney's departure?
3. Was Sidney leaving something that Henrietta desired?
Q5:
1. What should Henrietta hold?
2. What would it be best for Henrietta to grab on to?
3. What is Henrietta instructed to latch onto?
Q6:
1. Should Henrietta strangle Sidney?
2. Would it be advisable for Henrietta to strangle Sidney?
3. Is it best that Henrietta crush Sidney's neck?
Q7:
1. Where did Sidney carry Henrietta?
2. To what location was Henrietta carried by Sidney?
3. Where did Sidney lug Henrietta?
Q8:
1. How did Henrietta and Sidney get over the wall?
2. What did Henrietta and Sidney have to do in order to climb over the wall?
3. How were henrietta and Sidney able to scale over the wall?
Q9:
1. Did Henrietta and Sidney go for a ditch?
2. Did Sidney and Henrietta encounter a ditch on their journey?
3. Was there a ditch at any point in Sidney and Henrietta's path?
Q10:
1. When did Sidney drop Henrietta?
2. When did Sidney put Henrietta down?
3. At what point was Henrietta put down by Sidney?
