He was almost sorry when at last the sound of voices warned him that the lovers' stolen interview was at an end, and that they were approaching him at last.
Kate's bright face was all alight with happiness and joy as she appeared, holding fast to her lover's arm.

She greeted Cuthbert with the prettiest air of cousinly affection, asked of himself and his welfare with undisguised interest, and then told them of some rustic sports being held at a village only three miles distant, and begged Culverhouse to take her to see the spectacle.

She had set her heart upon it all day, and there would be no danger of her being seen in the crowd sure to be assembled there to witness the sights.

Her sisters had no love for such shows, and nobody would be greatly troubled at her hardihood in escaping from the escort of her servants.

She was always doing the like, and no harm had ever befallen her.