A PAIR OF BLUE EYES. Put me
friglitened.
down
I
'
But you
'
You
am
down,
do
put
me
!'
can't
walk/ said Knight.
know
don't
that
only frightened, I
how
can you
?
she ans-
tell you,'
wered petulantly, and raised her hand to her forehead.
Knight then saw that she
was bleeding from a severe cut apparently where
it
had descended upon a
salient corner of the leadwork.
first
time,
and
for a
for
minute nearly
lost
feel
this,
Knight rapidly bound
consciousness again.
round the
his handkerchief
Elfride too
now
seemed to perceive and the
in her wrist,
place,
and to
add to the complication, the thundercloud he had been watching began
heavy drops of
rain.
and saw the vicar
to shed
some
Knight looked up
striding
towards the
house, and Mrs. Swancourt waddling beside
him, like a hard-driven duck.
'As you are so better to
Knight
let '
me
faint,
it
will
be
much
carry you down,' said
or at any rate inside out of the
