The two stood staring at each other, and the young lady also looked with wide eyes and open mouth.
"Elizabeth!" said John.
She uttered a faint scream, then with a cry of "_Husband!_" flung herself upon his breast.
I slipped through the gate and shut it fast.
"I say, Allan," said Stephen, when we had retreated to a little distance, "did you see her ?" "Her?
Who?
Which ?" I asked.
"The young lady in the white clothes.

She is lovely." "Hold your tongue, you donkey!" I answered.

"Is this a time to talk of female looks ?" Then I went away behind the wall and literally wept for joy.

It was one of the happiest moments of my life, for how seldom things happen as they should! Also I wanted to put up a little prayer of my own, a prayer of thankfulness and for strength and wit to overcome the many dangers that yet awaited us..