But if you and Hammond want to go to the top, there is nothing to prevent you.

He is a skilled mountaineer.

I'll trust you with him.' Mary blushed, and made no reply.

Of all things in the world she least wanted to abandon the expedition.

Yet to climb Helvellyn alone with her brother's friend would no doubt be a terrible violation of those laws of maidenly propriety which Fraeulein was always expounding.