Since he was still focusing on the ground, Darcy didn't catch the blush on her cheek, although it wouldn't have surprised him in the least. It was a rather awkward and uncomfortable meeting for them both. He was just glad that she hadn't ran away in horror; he really hadn't intended to give anyone a fright.
The conversation seemed to take a strange turn, though. Not only was she not alarmed by his presence, she was offering to take him to a barn? He practically scoffed at the very idea. "Certainly not," he insisted. "Whatever kind of a man it is you take me for, you are sorely mistaken," he told he in no uncertain terms,. Go to a barn with her indeed.
Oh. Unless, of course, she simply meant to point him in the direction out of a kindness. Perhaps he had been too presumptuous. "How far is not far?" he asked with a reluctant change of heart.