I think, as Mr. Irwine looked round to-day, his eyes rested an instant longer than usual on the square pew occupied by Martin Poyser and his family.  And there was another pair of dark eyes that found it impossible not to wander thither, and rest on that round pink-and-white figure.  But Hetty was at that moment quite careless of any glances—­she was absorbed in the thought that Arthur Donnithorne would soon be coming into church, for the carriage must surely be at the church-gate by this time.  She had never seen him since she parted with him in the wood on Thursday evening, and oh, how long the time had seemed!  Things had gone on just the same as ever since that evening; the wonders that had happened then had brought no changes after them; they were already like a dream.  When she heard the church door swinging, her heart beat so, she dared not look up.  She felt that her aunt was curtsying; she curtsied herself.  That must be old Mr. Donnithorne—­he always came first, the wrinkled small old man, peering round with short-sighted glances at the bowing and curtsying congregation; then she knew Miss Lydia was passing, and though Hetty liked so much to look at her fashionable little coal-scuttle bonnet, with the wreath of small roses round it, she didn’t mind it to-day.  But there were no more curtsies—­no, he was not come; she felt sure there was nothing else passing the pew door but the house-keeper’s black bonnet and the lady’s maid’s beautiful straw hat that had once been Miss Lydia’s, and then the powdered heads of the butler and footman.  No, he was not there; yet she would look now—­she might be mistaken—­for, after all, she had not looked.  So she lifted up her eyelids and glanced timidly at the cushioned pew in the chancel—­there was no one but old Mr. Donnithorne rubbing his spectacles with his white handkerchief, and Miss Lydia opening the large gilt-edged prayer-book.  The chill disappointment was too hard to bear.  She felt herself turning pale, her lips trembling; she was ready to cry.  Oh, what should she do?  Everybody would know the reason; they would know she was crying because Arthur was not there.  And Mr. Craig, with the wonderful hothouse plant in his button-hole, was staring at her, she knew.  It was dreadfully long before the General Confession began, so that she could kneel down.  Two great drops would fall then, but no one saw them except good-natured Molly, for her aunt and uncle knelt with their backs towards her.  Molly, unable to imagine any cause for tears in church except faintness, of which she had a vague traditional knowledge, drew out of her pocket a queer little flat blue smelling-bottle, and after much labour in pulling the cork out, thrust the narrow neck against Hetty’s nostrils.  “It donna smell,” she whispered, thinking this was a great advantage which old salts had over fresh ones:  they did you good without biting your nose.  Hetty pushed it away peevishly; but this little flash of temper did what the salts