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ess thinking of such a thing. For just then she has other views regarding the pretty pleasure craft, and intends taking seat on its thwarts within less than twenty minutes’ time.

“By the way,” she says, as if the thought had suddenly occurred to her, “we may as well have that row now–whether it’s to be the last or not.”

Cunning creature! She has had it in her mind all the morning; first from her bed-chamber window, then from that of the breakfast-room, looking up the river’s reach, with the binocular at her eye too, to note if a certain boat, with a salmon-rod bending over it, passes down. For one of its occupants is an angler.

“The day’s superb,” she goes on; “sun’s not too hot–gentle breeze–just the weather for a row. And the river looks so inviting–seems calling us to come! What say you, Nell?”

“Oh! I’ve no objections.”

“Let us in, then, and make ready. Be quick about it! Remember it’s April, and there may be showers. We mustn’t miss a moment of that sweet sunshine.”