138 CAROLINE.
Talk in the chaise. The top to be put down again.

The road, presently, in one of its windings, came in
sight of a beautiful sheet of water. Caroline told Living-
ston that this was what they called the mill-pond. The
road descended in a winding manner, until it came very
near the shore of this pond. This was the same road, in
fact, that Caroline had come out into with Phonny and
Malleville, on the evening of their walk, at the place
where they saw the dog that Phonny thought was a fox.
As they rode along by this place, Caroline gave Living-
ston a long and very entertaining account of the excursion
she had made there, and of their getting caught in the
shower, and finally of their going home in the boat by
the way of the mill. She showed Livingston also the
gap in the stone-wall, where the romantic pathway com-
menced, and said, that if he and Wallace would form a
little party some day, to go and walk there, she would go
with them and show them the way.

Livingston said that he should like the plan very much
indeed.

“J am sorry now,” said Caroline, “that we put up the
chaise-top, for we have beautiful views of the pond along
here, and I don’t think that the sun would trouble us
much now.”

* Well,” said Livingston, “I can put it down again.”

“[ am sorry to trouble you so much,” said Caroline.

“Tt will be no trouble at all,” said Livingston. So he
stopped the horse and got out of the chaise and put the
top down again. As soon as he had got it down, Caroline
said after all she believed that it would be better not to
put the top down, but to roll up the curtain of the chaise
behind.

“ Then,” said she, “ we can look out behind and sce the