3/7 Do we get a chance further on ?" "No," said Halcyone. You branch further off once you have passed the closed gate. It was very stupid--the La Sarthe quarreled with the Wendovers a hundred years ago, and it was all closed up then, and these wicked spikes put." "It is too tantalizing. But won't you walk with us to where we have to part ?" Miss Lutworth said, while John Derringham had a sudden longing to turn back and carefully remove certain bits of iron and brick he wot of, and ask this nymph of the woods to take him on to their tree, and tell him more stories about Jason and Medea in that exquisitely refined voice of hers, as she had done once before, long ago. |