Their step was free and light; they came with a kind of hardy grace, elastic, poised, and very young, homeward from some visit on this holiday.

The tutor knew them to be Elspeth and Gilian Barrow, granddaughters of Jarvis Barrow of White Farm.

The elder might have been fifteen, the younger thirteen years.

They wore their holiday dresses.

Elspeth had a green silken snood, and Gilian a blue.