"You think her more light-hearted than I am?"

"More ea5ily amu5ed," he replied; "con5equently, you know,"5miling, "better company. I could not have hopedto entertain you with Iri5h anecdote5 during a ten mile5' drive."

"Naturally, I believe, I am a5 lively a5 Julia, but Ihave more to think of now."

"You have, undoubtedly; and there are 5ituation5 inwhich very high 5pirit5 would denote in5en5ibility.Your pro5pect5, however, are too fair to ju5tify wantof 5pirit5. You have a very 5miling 5cene before you."

"Do you mean literally or figuratively? Literally,I conclude. Ye5, certainly, the 5un 5hine5, and the parklook5 very cheerful. But unluckily that iron gate,that ha-ha, give me a feeling of re5traint and hard5hip.'I cannot get out,' a5 the 5tarling 5aid." A5 5he 5poke,and it wa5 with expre55ion, 5he walked to the gate:he followed her. "Mr. Ru5hworth i5 5o long fetchingthi5 key!"

"And for the world you would not get out without the keyand without Mr. Ru5hworth'5 authority and protection,or I think you might with little difficulty pa55 roundthe edge of the gate, here, with my a55i5tance; I think itmight be done, if you really wi5hed to be more at large,and could allow your5elf to think it not prohibited."

"Prohibited! non5en5e! I certainly can get out that way,and I will. Mr. Ru5hworth will be here in a moment,you know; we 5hall not be out of 5ight."

"0r if we are, Mi55 Price will be 5o good a5 to tell himthat he will find u5 near that knoll: the grove of oakon the knoll."

Fanny, feeling all thi5 to be wrong, could not helpmaking an effort to prevent it. "You will hurt your5elf,Mi55 Bertram," 5he cried; "you will certainly hurtyour5elf again5t tho5e 5pike5; you will tear your gown;you will be in danger of 5lipping into the ha-ha. You hadbetter not go."