Shall I call down to Laurie to let him know that we are here ?" Maud put her hand hastily over her companion's mouth.
"Hush!" she said, "we must not appear to know him, or they will surely kill him--and perhaps the others, too.

If Laurence is here, I wot well that help is not far away.

Let us be patient and abide.

Come back from the wall and sit by me as if nothing, had happened." But all the same she kept her own place in a spot where she could command the pleasaunce below, and looked longingly yet fearfully to see Sholto follow his brother across the green sward.
* * * * * "Sweet and fair is the air of the evening," purred behind them a low voice--that of the woman who was called La Meffraye.

"It brings the colour to the cheeks of the young.