They had a right to look upon their children's happiness for the years that were left to them of life.
The young people were high on a mountain path, where few were to be met with except an occasional Englishman climbing like themselves, or the goatherds with their little flocks.

He had helped her up a steep bit of climbing.

The exertion had brought an unwonted colour to her face.

Her hand lay in his, soft and warm.

His closed on it and held it.