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"Fear, Peter?"

"We were so far out of the world, and--I longed to kiss you"

"And didn't, Peter"

"And didn't, Charmian, because ere so very far from the

world, and because you were so very entle , as

the old locket says And do you re fingers on er lips,

"how I found you wearing that locket, and how you blundered and

stammered over it, and pretended to read your Horavely you reproved me?"

"And how you called rew more helpless and ill at

ease than ever, and how--just to flatter lorious hair'?"

"And so you have," said I, kissing a curl at her temple; "when

you unbind it, my Charmian, it will cover you like a lanced up at me,

sudden and shy, and blushed and slipped from my arms, and fled up

the path like a nye, flushed and panting, and

laughing for sheer happiness And now she rolled up her sleeves,

and set about preparing breakfast, laughing nant when I would kiss her, yet