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"Then there will be no waiting for supper, and I a the path she began to sing again

Being coe, I set down

"These," said I, in answer to her look, "are the bars I promised

to make for the door"

"Do you always keep your pro to look at the great bars, with a fork

in her hand, for she was in theup, "then, if

you proh

the coppice--you will do so, won't you?"

"Why should I?" I inquired, turning sharply to look at her

"Because the coppice is so dark and lonely, and if--I say, if I

should take it into my head to come andyou" And so she looked at , fell once , the while I sat and watched her beneath my brows

Surely, surely no wo

so blithely and happily, or look at one with such sweet candor in

her eyes?

And yet the supper was a very ghost of a meal, for when I