My daughter is rather a good mountaineer, and Miss Stirling is just as anxious to make the ascent.

I may say that we have had some experience in Switzerland, not to mention the hills among the English lakes.

Do you know anything about climbing ?" "No, sir," said Weston; "not as it is understood in Switzerland, anyway.

I don't suppose there's an ice-ax in the country, and I never saw a party roped.

Still, I have been up seven or eight thousand feet several times." "What were you doing ?" asked Miss Kinnaird.
Weston saw the faint twinkle in Ida Stirling's eyes, and fancied that he understood it.