A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
64
that morning.
by reason
Elfride
was rather
of his inattention,
wilful,
which she
privately set dovra to his thinking her not
worth talking watching the
to.
rise
AVhilst
Knight
stood
of the cloud, she saun-
and
tered to the other side of the tower,
remembered a giddy feat she had
there
formed the year before.
It w^as to
per-
walk
round upon the parapet of the tower which was quite without battlement or pinnacle,
and presented a smooth
flat
surface
about two feet wide, forming a pathway
on
all
the four sides.
in the least
now
Without
reflecting
upon what she was doing, she
stepped upon the parapet in the old
way, and began walking along.
'We
are
down, cousin Henry,' cried
Mrs. Swancourt
when you
up the
turret.
'
Follow us
like.'
Knight turned and saw Elfride com-
mencing her elevated promenade.
His face
flushed with mingled concern and anger at
her rashness.
