As for the rest, she knew what it was a great deal better than I did, for I never could look far away from her eyes when they were opened upon me.
Now, seeing how I heeded her, and feeling that I had kissed her, although she was such a little girl, eight years old or thereabouts, she turned to the stream in a bashful manner, and began to watch the water, and rubbed one leg against the other.
I, for my part, being vexed at her behaviour to me, took up all my things to go, and made a fuss about it; to let her know I was going.
But she did not call me back at all, as I had made sure she would do; moreover, I knew that to try the descent was almost certain death to me, and it looked as dark as pitch; and so at the mouth I turned round again, and came back to her, and said, 'Lorna.' 'Oh, I thought you were gone,' she answered; 'why did you ever come here?
Do you know what they would do to us, if they found you here with me ?' 'Beat us, I dare say, very hard; or me, at least.

They could never beat you.' 'No.

They would kill us both outright, and bury us here by the water; and the water often tells me that I must come to that.' 'But what should they kill me for ?' 'Because you have found the way up here, and they never could believe it.

Now, please to go; oh, please to go.

They will kill us both in a moment.