I don't even know your name, and I am sure I have no right to ask it, but would you mind rowing across with me?
It would be so kind of you; you might introduce me to the housekeeper." Again Beatrice laughed the merry laugh of girlhood; she was too young to be conscious of any impropriety in the situation, and indeed there was none.

But her sense of humour told her that it was funny, and she became possessed with a not unnatural curiosity to see the thing out.
"Oh, very well," she said, "I will come." The boat was pushed off and very soon they reached the stone quay that bordered the harbour of the Castle, about which a little village of retainers had grown up.

Seeing the boat arrive, some of these people sauntered out of the cottages, and then, thinking that a visitor had come, under the guidance of Miss Beatrice, to look at the antiquities of the Castle, which was the show place of the neighbourhood, sauntered back again.

Then the pair began the zigzag ascent of the rock mountain, till at last they stood beneath the mighty mass of building, which, although it was hoary with antiquity, was by no means lacking in the comforts of modern civilization, the water, for instance, being brought in pipes laid beneath the sea from a mountain top two miles away on the mainland.
"Isn't there a view here ?" said Beatrice, pointing to the vast stretch of land and sea.

"I think, Mr.Davies, that you have the most beautiful house in the whole world.