CHAPTER IV.

A LITTLE MUSIC.

After lunch, Herbert Le Breton went off for his afternoon ride--a grave social misdemeanour, Ernest thought it--and Arthur Berkeley took Edie round to show her about the college and the shady gardens. Ernest would have liked to walk with her himself, for there was something in her that began to interest him somewhat; and besides, she was so pretty, and so graceful, and so sympathetic: but he felt he must not take her away from her host for the time being, who had a sort of proprietary right in the pleasing duty of acting as showman to her over his own college. So he dropped behind with Harry Oswald and old Mrs. Martindale, and endeavoured to simulate a polite interest in the old lady's scraps of conversation upon the heads of houses, their wives and families.

'This is Addison's Walk, Miss Oswald,' said Berkeley, taking her through the gate into the wooded path beside the Cherwell; 'so called because the ingenious Mr. Addison is said to have specially patronised it. As he was an undergraduate of this college, and a singularly lazy person, it's very probable that he really did so; every other undergraduate certainly does, for it's the nearest walk an idle man can get without ever taking the trouble to go outside the grounds of Magdalen.'

'The ingenious Mr. Addison was quite right then,' Edie answered, smiling; 'for he couldn't have chosen a lovelier place on earth to stroll in. How exquisite it looks just now, with the mellow light falling down upon the path through this beautiful autumnal foliage! It's just a natural cathedral aisle, with a lot of pale straw-coloured glass in the painted windows, like that splendid one we went to see the other day at Merton Chapel.'

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who went on an outing?
2. Where did they go?
3. Did Arthur wish he could be alone with her?
4. Who did?
5. Was she very plain looking?
6. When did they leave for the outing?
7. Who else went out?
8. Was he on foot?
9. Was it bright out?
10. Was it during the summer?
11. What time of year was it?
12. What was special about the windows?
13. Who was attending the school?
14. Had they seen anything similar before?
15. When?
16. Where?
17. Was Edie a callous person?
18. What is the trail called?
19. Why was it named that?
20. How is he described?
1. Ernest-Arthur Berkeley and Edie
2. The college and gardens.
3. No
4. Ernest
5. No, she was pretty.
6. After lunch
7. Herbert Le Breton
8. No, a ride
9. No, the light was mellow
10. no.
11. Autumn.
12. They were painted.
13. Mr. Addison
14. Yes.
15. The other day.
16. Merton Chapel.
17. No.
18. Addison's Walk
19. Mr. Addison patronised the path.
20. Ingenious