There you may find shade in summer, and great blaeberries and ripening rowans in the wane of August.

These last were the snare for Alice, who was ever an adventurer.

For the moment she was the schoolgirl again, and all sordid elderly cares were tossed to the wind.

She teased Doctor Gracey to that worthy's delight, and she bade George and Arthur fetch and carry in a way that made them her slaves for life.

Then she unbent to Mr.Stocks and made him follow her out on a peninsula of rock, above which hung a great cluster of fruit.