Yet perhaps I had never before properly appreciated its perfect gracefulness.
"I was going farther along the cliffs," she said, "but I will walk some of the way back with you.

One minute." She stood on the extreme edge, and, shading her eyes with her hand, she looked up and down the broad expanse of sand--a great untenanted wilderness.

I wondered for whom or what she was looking, but I asked no question.

In a few moments she rejoined me, and we turned inland.
"Well," she said, "what is it that you wish to say ?" "Lady Angela," I began, "a few weeks ago there was no one whose prospects were less hopeful than mine.

Thanks to your father and Colonel Ray all that is changed.