Nevertheless, she instantly decided that he was TOO handsome and too picturesque, without suspecting that her ideas of the limits of masculine beauty were merely personal experience.
As he turned away from the cliff they were brought face to face.

"It doesn't look very encouraging over there," he said quietly, as if the inevitableness of the situation had relieved him of his previous shyness and effort; "it's even worse than I expected.

The snow must have begun there last night, and it looks as if it meant to stay." He stopped for a moment, and then, lifting his eyes to her, said:-- "I suppose you know what this means ?" "I don't understand you." "I thought not.

Well! it means that you are absolutely cut off here from any communication or intercourse with any one outside of that canyon.
By this time the snow is five feet deep over the only trail by which one can pass in and out of that gateway.

I am not alarming you, I hope, for there is no real physical danger; a place like this ought to be well garrisoned, and certainly is self-supporting so far as the mere necessities and even comforts are concerned.