"You don't know the gully, and if I'm mistaken about it, you could help me up." "That's true.

Still I'd sooner go." Helen shook her head, and although she did not speak, he felt there was something delightful in her consulting him.

They had come to know each other on the misty hillside in a way that would not have been possible in conventional surroundings.

He had seen a possibility of the girl, so to speak, shutting him out in self-defense because he had had some part in her humiliation, but he thought that risk had gone.
"Well," he resumed, "what do you propose ?" "I'm going to see if this is the place I think.

You can steady me." Festing lay down with his head over the edge and found a grip for his toes and knees.