CHAPTER VIII.
THE STILE IN THE WOOD After that she changed the conversation to other things; and when I had drunk my tea and eaten with an appetite I went upstairs with her to see things she had promised to show me.
I had had no idea that they were for me.

I knew that she had a great many old and beautiful things, and from my childhood I had delighted in them.

I could remember her calling for me in her pony phaeton before Uncle Luke had left us, and she would carry me all over Castle Clody for she was a tall, strong young woman; and while she changed her dress I used to sit in the middle of her bed with the curtains of blue and silver damask falling to either side of me, and she would give me boxes of pretty things to play with.

To this day I like better than any of her valuable jewels her pretty trinkets of garnet and amethyst and topaz, of which she has a great many.

They lay in trays in glass-lidded boxes and I delighted to look at them.