ngs added charm to her charm. The soft winds blowing her hair and her pink skirt; the green leaves whispering above and around her;

said to her? Were they not true words? Did he intend, by ignoring them, to

thstone. Joan was silent, and went about her duties in a tiptoeing way that was very fretful to the impatience of Denas. Denas herself was knitting a guernsey, and as she sat counting the st

" he said, "is

to call me dear? and my fath

be and dear you always will be to Tris Penrose. The word may be shut in my heart or I may

hen she began to fold up her knitting. While Tris was talking to her father, she would ask for permission to go and see Elizabeth. While Tris

t to go and see Miss Tresham. She told me a very important secret on Saturday, and I know she was expecting me yesterday to talk it over with her;" then she went c

elt the hesitation and met it with a bribe: "You could come up the

for you on the cliff, for you will st

fine I took the linen to bleach. She will be so disappointed if I do