I'll go for a ramble over the hills, and return in time for afternoon tea.

I shall look for you on the tennis lawn at half-past four.' He took her in his arms, and this time she yielded herself to him, and the beautiful head rested for a few moments upon his breast, and the soft eyes looked up at him in confiding fondness.

He bent and kissed her once only, but a kiss that meant for life and death.

In the next moment he was gone, leaving her alone among the pine trees..