And now I shall be able to show you the Red Tarn, the highest pool of water in England,' she said, turning to Hammond.

'And you will see Windermere winding like a silvery serpent between the hills, and Grasmere shining like a jewel in the depth of the valley, and the sea glittering like a line of white light between the edges of earth and heaven, and the dark Scotch hills like couchant lions far away to the north.' 'That is to say these things are all supposed to be on view from the top of the mountain; but as a peculiar and altogether exceptional state of the atmosphere is essential to their being seen, I need not tell you that they are rarely visible,' said Maulevrier.

'You are talking to old mountaineers, Molly.

Hammond has done Cotapaxi and had his little clamber on the equatorial Andes, and I--well, child, I have done my Righi, and I have always found the boasted panorama enveloped in dense fog.' 'It won't be foggy to-day,' said Mary.

'Shall we do the whole thing on foot, or shall I order the ponies ?' Mr.Hammond inquired the distance up and down, and being told that it involved only a matter of eight miles, decided upon walking.
'I'll walk, and lead your pony,' he said to Mary, but Mary declared herself quite capable of going on foot, so the ponies were dispensed with as a possible encumbrance.
This was planned and discussed in the garden before breakfast.