CHAPTER VI.
THE VISITOR "May I come and see you ?" said Robin.
Juliet, seated under an apple-tree in the tiny orchard that ran beside the road, looked up from her book and saw his thin face peering at her through the hedge.

She smiled at him very kindly from under her flower-decked shelter.
"Of course!" she said.

"Come in by all means!" She expected him to go round to the gate, but he surprised her by going down on all fours and crawling through a gap in the privet.

He looked like a monstrous baboon shuffling towards her.

When through, he stood up again, a shaggy lock of hair falling across his forehead, and looked at her with eyes that seemed to burn in their deep hollows like distant lamps at night.
He stopped, several paces from her.