coming by this route.' 'If you determined not to lose much of your time.' The coolness of her fencing disconcerted a gentleman conscious of his madness.

She took instant advantage of any circuitous move; she gave him no practicable point.

He was little skilled in the arts of attack, and felt that she checked his impetuousness; respected her for it, chafed at it, writhed with the fervours precipitating him here, and relapsed on his pleasure in seeing her face, hearing her voice.
'Your happiness, I hope, is the chief thought in such a case,' he said.
'I am sure you would consider it.' 'I can't quite forget my own.' 'You compliment an ambitious hostess.' Dacier glanced across the pastures, 'What was it that tempted you to this place ?' 'A poet would say it looks like a figure in the shroud.

It has no features; it has a sort of grandeur belonging to death.

I heard of it as the place where I might be certain of not meeting an acquaintance.' 'And I am the intruder.' 'An hour or two will not give you that title.' 'Am I to count the minutes by my watch ?' 'By the sun.