She threw her head back against the chair and closed her eyes, while her lips still smiled triumphantly.
'Were you trying to shock Captain Marsworth ?' 'It's so easy--it's hardly worth doing,' said Cicely, sleepily.

Then after a pause--'Ah, isn't that the motor ?' * * * * * Meanwhile the little hired motor from Ambleside had dropped the Sarratts on the Easedale road, and carried Bridget away in an opposite direction, to the silent but great relief of the newly-married pair.

And soon the husband and wife had passed the last farm in the valley, and were walking up a rough climbing path towards Sour Milk Ghyll, and Easedale Tarn.

The stream was full, and its many channels ran white and foaming down the steep rock face, where it makes its chief leap to the valley.
The summer weather held, and every tree and fell-side stood bathed in a warm haze, suffused with the declining light.

All round, encircling fells in a purple shadow; to the north and east, great slopes appearing--Helvellyn, Grisedale, Fairfield.