Why, what harm have we done ?" "Torn all that ragged place down the bottom of the cliff," I said dolefully.

"It wasn't like that before." "And what of it?
Who's to know but what the stone tumbled down by itself?
Nobody heard." We looked guiltily round, but the Gap was perfectly solemn and silent, the only thing suggesting life after the two cottages and the lugger being the vessels out at sea between us and the Welsh coast.
"But it seems such a pity!" I said ruefully.

"I didn't think the stone would make so much of a mark coming down." "There he goes again!" sneered Bob.

"Afraid of spoiling his father's estate.

Oh, arn't we proud of two sides of a hole and a water-gully!" I had some reason for my remarks, for as I looked down there below us, where the great mass had struck so heavily, there appeared to be a smooth grey patch as if the surface had been scraped away.
"Hi! Look, look!" cried Bigley.