She trudged up the village street,huddled into herself;it was like a poke of hot chestnuts to carry with her,the knowledge that she had done this.She had done what she had been forbidden to do,and she had got away with it unseen,and nobody at Longbourn would ever know!She was so wrapped up in gleeful contemplation of her misdeed,that she did not notice the figure on the high path through the fields,who stood in a sodden coat,watching her from beneath a dripping hat brim.