'Twas as if the shadow of a sterner life had come over their young gaiety.

Elspeth did not look at me, but sat with cast-down eyes, plucking feverishly at a rose.

The Governor laughed out loud.
"Brave hearts!" he cried.

"Will you travel together ?" I looked at Grey.

"That can hardly be," he said.
"Well, we must spin for it," said Nicholson, taking a guinea from his pocket.