46 Lily and Water-Lily.

of mortification, but she was not going to pretend
that she had seen.

She went back to Ruby without a word. And
together they went out of the forest back towards
the cliff.

The sun was beginning to sink at last, and the heat
was no longer so great as it had been.

But the children were languid—as they were not in
the habit of being.

They wandered idly down the torrent-bed under
the cliff, till they came to the little copse where the
lily grew.

The sweet scent stole towns them once more

in the evening air, and they turned in under the
shade.

“T want to find out what it is that smells so good
here,” Pearl said.

The lily saw them coming.

The evening breeze stirred his leaves, and made
him tremble.

Pearl was walking a few steps in front of Ruby.