FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153  
154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   >>  
ow--have you the faintest idea where we are going?" His arm tightened over her hand, but he made no attempt at prevarication. "No, I haven't! For the last five or ten minutes it has been purely guess-work." "We may be going in the wrong direction, or round and round in a circle!" "We may--I am afraid it is more than probable. I have been thinking that it might be better to stay where we are. We can't have strayed very far out of the course as yet, but--" Again he stopped, and this time Margot completed the sentence. "I know! It's not safe to wander about when we can't see what is ahead. I've been thinking the same thing. We had better sit down and wait. They will come to look for us. I'm sure they will come, and there's a cottage somewhere near, where we have been for milk. That's another chance. If we keep calling the people, they may hear us." "Oh yes, yes! Some one will hear, or the mist will rise as suddenly as it fell. It will be only for a short time," returned the Editor sturdily. "Now look here--the ground is soaking--you can't possibly sit on it without something underneath. If you could spare your cape it would serve us both as a rug, and I'm going to wrap you up in my coat." He loosened his arm, as if to take off the said coat forthwith, but Margot's fingers tightened their grasp in very determined fashion. "You are not! I won't wear it. I absolutely refuse to do any such thing. How can you suggest such a horridly selfish arrangement--I to wear your coat, while you sit shivering in shirt-sleeves? Never! I'd rather freeze!" "Put it the other way. Am I, a man, to hug my coat, and let a girl sit on the soaking grass? How do you suppose I should feel? I'd rather freeze, too!" Margot gave a quavering little laugh. "It seems to me we have a pretty good chance of doing it--coat or no coat. If I am a girl, I'm a healthy one, and I must take my chance. Did you happen to put your newspaper in your pocket this morning? That would be better than nothing." "Of course I did! That will do capitally. What a blessing you thought of it! There! Sit down quickly, and I'll pull a bit down under your feet. Can't I wrap that cape more tightly round you? And the hood? Hadn't you better have the hood up?" "Yes, please! I had forgotten the hood. That will be cosy!" Margot's cold cheeks flamed with sudden colour as she felt the touch of careful fingers settling the hood rou
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153  
154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   >>  



Top keywords:
Margot
 

chance

 

tightened

 

freeze

 

fingers

 
soaking
 
thinking
 

shivering

 
arrangement
 

quickly


sleeves

 

selfish

 
absolutely
 

refuse

 
tightly
 

determined

 
fashion
 
settling
 

forgotten

 

suggest


careful

 

horridly

 

healthy

 

pretty

 

colour

 

blessing

 

happen

 

sudden

 

capitally

 

morning


pocket

 
newspaper
 

cheeks

 

suppose

 

quavering

 
thought
 

flamed

 
strayed
 

direction

 
circle

afraid
 

probable

 
stopped
 
wander
 

completed

 

sentence

 
attempt
 

faintest

 
prevarication
 

minutes