Not that he believed that she loved him; but it seemed possible to him that she resented the absence of his attention.

He went down, and scrambled out on the rocks into the bed of the river, while the girls above looked down upon him, watching the leaps that he made.

Priscilla and Mrs.Trevelyan called to him, bidding him beware; but Nora called not at all.

He was whistling as he made his jumps, but still he heard their voices, and knew that he did not hear Nora's voice.

He poised himself on the edge of a rock in the middle of the stream, and looked up the river and down the river, turning himself carefully on his narrow foothold; but he was thinking only of Nora.