A PAIR OF BLUE I
all,
she
59
EYES,
was thinking how clever you
said,
want of premeditation
a
^^'ith
are,'
that was startling in
its
honesty and sim-
plicity.
Feeling restless
now
had so
that she
unwittingly spoken, she arose and stepped to the window, ha^dng heard the voices of
her father and Mrs. Swancourt coming up
below the said,
'Here they
terrace.
are,'
Ivnight walked out
going out.
she
upon
the lawn behind her.
She stood upon the
edge
close
of the
balustrade,
terrace,
to the
and looked towards the sun,
hanging over a glade, just now
Tempe's
stone
vale,
fair
as
up which her father was
walking.
Knight could not help looking at her.
The sun was horizon, face
and
within ten its
degrees of the
yellow light flooded her
and heightened the bright rose colour
of her cheeks
to
a
vermilion red,
moderate pink hue being
onl}'-
their
seen in
its
natural tone where the cheek curved round
