He began to entreat her, but she made no answer.

He was in terror lest she might fall, and sprang after her to catch her; but up, up she climbed, with as steady a foot and as sure an eye as he could have shown himself, until she reached the top, when, looking down on him with dancing eyes, she kissed her hand in triumph and then turned away, her cheeks aglow.

When he reached the top, she was standing on the very edge of the precipice, looking far over the long reach of sloping country to the blue line of the horizon.

Keith almost gasped at her temerity.

He pleaded with her not to be so venturesome.
"Please stand farther back, I beg you," he said as he reached her side.
"Now, that is better," she said, with a little nod to him, her blue eyes full of triumph, and she seated herself quietly on the rock.
Keith began to scold her, but she laughed at him.
He had done it often, she said, and what he could do she could do.
The beauty of the wide landscape sank into both their minds, and after a little they both took a graver tone.
"Tell me where your old home is," she said presently, after a long pause in which her face had grown thoughtful.