1 He advanced a step or two into the dim room.
2 He took a wild step forward and then stopped.
3 He stood in the darkness expecting to hear her step.
4 As he stood there he heard a step behind him and she entered.
5 "Good night, Matt," he said as she put her foot on the first step of the stairs.
6 He listened for Zeena's step and, not hearing it, called her name up the stairs.
7 Mattie lifted her hand with a quick gesture, and he heard his wife's step behind him.
8 She moved forward a step or two and then paused again above the dip of the Corbury road.
9 She was bending over a pan on the stove; but at the sound of his step she turned with a start and sprang to him.
10 Zeena came into the room with her dragging down-at-the-heel step, and quietly took her accustomed seat between them.
11 She lingered a moment, caught in the same strong current; then she slipped from him and drew back a step or two, pale and troubled.
12 His son seemed likely to follow in his steps, and was meanwhile applying the same arts to the conquest of the Starkfield maidenhood.
13 "I told you I ain't the kind to be afraid" she tossed back, almost indifferently; and suddenly she began to walk on with a rapid step.
14 She had not heard Ethan's call because she was sobbing and she did not hear his step till he stood close behind her and laid his hands on her shoulders.
15 In another moment she would step forth into the night, and his eyes, accustomed to the obscurity, would discern her as clearly as though she stood in daylight.
16 Having satisfied himself that there was no risk of immediate discovery he went back to the kitchen with a lighter step, and found Mattie disconsolately removing the last scraps of pickle from the floor.
17 Mattie Silver had lived under his roof for a year, and from early morning till they met at supper he had frequent chances of seeing her; but no moments in her company were comparable to those when, her arm in his, and her light step flying to keep time with his long stride, they walked back through the night to the farm.
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