CHAPTER 8.
MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL.
Same day, 11 o'clock P.M .-- Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it tonight.

We had a lovely walk.

Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of us.

I believe we forgot everything, except of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start.

We had a capital 'severe tea' at Robin Hood's Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow window right over the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand.