She had never before quite reached it on account of the difficulty of the approach; but she had promised herself that she would do so sooner or later, when time and tide should permit.
Both chanced to be favourable on this particular afternoon, and she set forth light-footed upon the adventure, leaving Cinders to his monotonous but all-engrossing pastime.

A wide line of rocks stretched between her and her goal, which was dimly discernible in the deep shadow of the cliff--a mysterious opening that had the appearance of a low Gothic archway.
"I'm sure it's haunted," said Chris, and fell forthwith to dreaming as she stepped along the sunlit sand.
Of course she would find an enchanted hall, peopled by crabs that were not crabs at all, but the afore-mentioned knight and his retinue, all bound by the same wicked spell.

"And I shall have to find out what it is and set him free," said Chris, with a sigh of pleasurable anticipation.
"And then, I suppose, he will begin to jabber French, and I shall wish to goodness I hadn't.

I expect he will want to marry me, poor thing! And I shall have to explain--in French, ugh!--that as he is only a foreigner I couldn't possibly, under any circumstances, entertain such a preposterous notion for a single instant.

No, I am afraid that would sound rather rude.