If we go home by the bridge we pass the little Brink hotel, where they give capital teas.

We can stop there, rest, get tea, have a dance in the 'ball-room,' sixteen by twenty, and go home by moonlight, filling the souls of Miss Leighton and Henrietta with bliss." A chorus of ecstasy followed this; Sophie herself was satisfied with the plan, and exulted in the prospect of washing her face, and lying down on a bed for half an hour, though only at a little country inn.

Even this low form of civilized life was tempting, after seven hours spent in communion with nature on hard rocks.
Great alacrity was shown in getting ready and in getting off.

I could not speak to any one, not even the dissatisfied man, but walked away by myself and tried to let no one see what I was feeling.

After all was ready, I got into the carriage beside one of the Miss Lowders, and the dissatisfied man sat opposite.