It was an instance of woman's keen appreciativeness of nature's moods and peculiarities: a man crossing those fields might hardly have perceived that the trees dripped at all.
Unable, as a devotee to science, to rest under this misgiving, he crossed the field in the furrow that he had used ever since the corn was sown, and entered the plantation.
Naturally, if anyone might be watching for the kidnapper to come for the note, they'd be able to see him a long way off crossing the fields or walking in the road.