knowing in her heart that she needed to sort out her feelings for the man but glad of a reprieve that meant she didnt have to keep hiding out like the coward she was starting to feel she was becoming , she turned to her work once more and pushed all other considerations to the recesses of her mind chapter twenty-seven standing smack-bang in the middle of an encircling maelstrom of brawny men and moving machinery , all busily going about their allotted specialities , darcy was in her element .