It used to be a steep scramble."
"Three abreast," said the doctor. "So we could--if necessary." He
stepped back and raised Jane from her seat, drawing her cold hand
through his left arm. "Now, my dear fellow, my right arm will suit
you best; then you can keep your stick in your right hand."
And thus they started down through the wood, on that lovely Sabbath
morn of early summer; and the doctor walked erect between those two
severed hearts, uniting, and yet dividing them.
Just once Garth paused and listened. "I seem to hear another
footstep," he said, "besides yours and mine."
"The wood is full of footsteps," said the doctor, "just as the heart
is full of echoes. If you stand still and listen you can hear what
you will in either."
"Then let us not stand still," said Garth, "for in old days, if I
was late for lunch, Margery used to spank me."
CHAPTER XXVI
HEARTS MEET IN SIGHTLESS LAND
"It will be absolutely impossible, Miss Gray, for me ever to tell
you what I think of this that you have done for my sake.
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