It was tragic.

Is that pool really bottomless ?" "So far as we ever have been able to discover." Philip stood looking at the water, while the long, sweet grasses, thickly sprinkled with blue flag bloom, over which wild bees clambered, swayed around his feet.

Then he turned to the girl.

She had worked hard.
The same lavender dress she had worn the previous day clung to her in limp condition.

But she was as evenly coloured and of as fine grain as a wild rose petal, her hair was really brown, but never was such hair touched with a redder glory, while her heavy arching brows added a look of strength to her big gray-blue eyes.
"And you were born here ?" He had not intended to voice that thought.
"Yes," she said, looking into his eyes.