The April sun, deliciously warm, drew a smoky odor from the hedge of box with which the parapet walk was bordered, in and out of which darted small green lizards with the quickness of little fishes.
John drew a long breath.
"I don't believe there is another such view in the world," he said.

"I do not wonder that this is your favorite spot." "Yes," she said, "you should see the grounds--the whole place is superb--but this is the glory of it all, and I have brought you straight here because I wanted to see it with you, and this may be the only opportunity." "What do you mean ?" he asked apprehensively.
"You heard Mr.Ruggles's question about the cable dispatch ?" she said.
"Yes." "Well," she said, "our plans have been very much upset by some things he has heard from home.

We came on from Algiers ten days earlier than we had intended, and if the reply to Mr.Ruggles's cable is unfavorable, we are likely to depart for Genoa to-morrow and take the steamer for home on Monday.

The reason why I did not send a note to your bankers," she added, "was that we came on the same boat that I intended to write by; and Mr.Hartleigh's man has inquired for you every day at Cook's so that Mr.Hartleigh might know of your coming and call upon you." John gave a little exclamation of dismay.

Her face was very still as she gazed out over the sea with half-closed eyes.