The scene was on the high road from Shap to Vavasor, and as she was still dressed in all the sombre habiliments of early widowhood, and as neither he nor his sweetheart were under forty, perhaps it was as well that they were not caught toying together in so very public a place. 
They were on the high road to Shap, and as she was still dressed in mourning, and as neither of them were under forty, perhaps it was as well