passed him while he was reading s letter by the last lamp and now he was her he did hope for a moment that it might be with a changed mind but it was not she nor anybody like her a taller form than that of his and although the season was only autumn she was wrapped in or in thick and heavy clothing of some kind a young man of twenty he soon advanced abreast of her and could get glimpses of her against the lights it was dignified � that of a very nothing more classical had he ever seen she walked at a swinging pace yet with such ease and power that there was but little difference in their rate of speed for several minutes and during this time he regarded and however he was about to pass her by when she suddenly turned and addressed him mr i think of east he assented and could just discern what a handsome commanding imperious face it was � quite of a piece with the proud tones of her voice she was a new type altogether in his experience and her accent was not so local as s can you tell me the time please he looked at his watch by the aid of a light and in telling her that it was a quarter past seven observed by the momentary gleam of his match that her eyes looked a little red and as if with weeping mr will you forgive what will appear very strange to you i dare say that is may i ask you to lend me some money for a the well beloved day or two i have been so foolish as to leave my purse on the dressing table it did appear strange and yet there were features in the young lady s personality which assured him in a moment that she was not an he yielded to her request and put his hand in his pocket here it remained for a moment how much did she mean by the words some money the quality of her form and manner made him throw himself by an impulse into harmony with her and he responded he scented a romance he handed her five pounds his caused her no apparent surprise it is quite enough thank you she remarked quietly as he announced the sum lest she should be unable to see it for herself while and conversing with her he had not observed that the rising wind which had proceeded from puffing to growling and from growling to with the accustomed suddenness of its changes here had at length brought what it promised by these � rain the drops which had at first hit their left cheeks like the of a soon assumed the character of a from the bank adjoining one shot of a young man of twenty which was sufficiently smart to go through s sleeve the tall girl turned and seemed to be somewhat concerned at an which she had plainly not foreseen before her starting we must take shelter said but where said she to was the long monotonous bank too piled to afford a screen over which they could hear the of pebbles by the sea without on their right stretched the inner bay or the distant riding lights of the ships now dim and glimmering behind them a faint spark here and there in the lower sky showed where the island rose before there was nothing definite and could be nothing till they reached a precarious wood bridge a mile farther on henry the eighth s castle being a little farther still but just within the summit of the bank whither it had apparently been hauled to be out of the way of the waves was one of the local boats called bottom upward as soon as they saw it the pair ran up the slope towards it by a impulse they then perceived that it had lain there a long time and were comforted to find it the well beloved ble of affording more protection than anybody would have expected from a distant view it formed a shelter or store for the the boom of the being as a roof by creeping under the bows which the bank on to they made their way within where upon some oars and other lay a mass of dry � a whole upon this they scrambled and sat down through inability to stand upright a charge the rain fell upon the of the old like corn thrown in by some colossal and darkness set in to its full shade they crouched so close to each other that he could feel her against him neither had spoken since they left the till she said with attempted this is unfortunate he admitted that it was and found after a few further remarks had passed that she certainly had been weeping there being a suppressed gasp of in her utterance now and then it is more unfortunate for you perhaps than for me he said and i am very sorry that it should be so she replied nothing to this and he added that it was rather a desolate place for a woman alone and he hoped nothing serious c the well beloved had happened to drag her out at such an time at first she seemed not at all disposed to show any on her own affairs and he was left to conjecture as to her history and name and how she could possibly have known him but as the rain gave not the least sign of he observed i think we shall have to go back never said she and the firmness with which she closed her lips was audible in the word why not he inquired there are good reasons i cannot understand how you should know me while i have no knowledge of you oh but you know me � 