'I would save you--and him too.'

'And let him drown. Come, or you don't love me!' she teasingly
went on.

'And let him drown,' he ejaculated despairingly.

'There; now I am yours!' she said, and a woman's flush of triumph
lit her eyes.



'Only one earring, miss, as I'm alive,' said Unity on their
entering the hall.

With a face expressive of wretched misgiving, Elfride's hand flew
like an arrow to her ear.

'There!' she exclaimed to Stephen, looking at him with eyes full
of reproach.

'I quite forgot, indeed. If I had only remembered!' he answered,
with a conscience-stricken face.

She wheeled herself round, and turned into the shrubbery. Stephen
followed.

'If you had told me to watch anything, Stephen, I should have
religiously done it,' she capriciously went on, as soon as she