Copplestone contented himself with an inspection from the archway; he looked down and saw at once that a fall from that height must mean sure and swift death: he saw, too, that Greyle had been quite right in saying that the sudden plunge of Oliver's body through the leafy screen far beneath had made little difference to the appearance of that screen as seen from above.

And now that he saw everything it seemed to him that the real truth might well lie in one word--accident.
"Coming round this parapet ?" asked Gilling, who was looking narrowly about him.
"No!" replied Copplestone.

"I can't stand looking down from great heights.

It makes my head swim.

Are you ?" "Sure!" answered Gilling.