looking down on the ground carefully at every step. In that way I got on, after a long time, to the boat-house, and as soon as I was inside it, I went on my knees to hunt over the floor. I was still searching with my back to the doorway, when I heard a soft, strange voice behind me say, ‘Miss Fairlie.’”
“Miss Fairlie!”
“Yes, my old name—the dear, familiar name that I thought I had parted from for ever. I started up—not frightened,
looking down on the ground carefully at every step. In that way I got on, after a long time, to the boat-house, and as soon as I was inside it, I went on my knees to hunt over the floor. I was still searching with my back to the doorway, when I heard a soft, strange voice behind me say, ‘Miss Fairlie.’”
“Miss Fairlie!”
“Yes, my old name—the dear, familiar name that I thought I had parted from for ever. I started up—not frightened,
