I should not like to live there." "Have you noticed the faint scent of lavender that comes through the window ?" "Long since--there your sister is moving and has opened her eyes--now she has shut them again." "Go back into the garden and wait till I come," Arsinoe commanded him decidedly.

"I will only see how Selene is going on; I will not stop long for my father wishes me to return soon, and no one can nurse her better than Hannah!" The girl drew her hand out of her lover's and knocked at the door of the little house; it was opened and the widow herself led Arsinoe to the bedside of her sister.

Pollux at first sat a while on a bench in the garden, but soon sprang up and paced with long steps the path he had previously trodden with Arsinoe.

A stone table across the path, brought him to a stand-still, and he took a fancy for leaping it.

The third time he came up to it he sprang over it with a long jump.