Her face flushed as red as fire.�-Could Curly have betrayed her?
She managed to stammer out,
"Oh! Did you?
And then silence fell again.
"Eh! Alec," she said at length, taking up the conversation, in her turn, "we thought we would never see ye again."
"I thought so too," answered Alec, "when the great berg came down on us through the snow-storm, and flung the barque upon the floe with her side crushed in.�-How I used to dream about the old school-days, Annie, and finding you in my hut!-�And I did find you in the snow, Annie."
But a figure came round the other corner�-for the road made a double sweep at this point�-and cried�-
"Annie, come hame direcly. Ye're wantit."
"I'm coming to see you again soon, Annie," said Alec. "But I must go away for a mouth or two first."
Annie replied with a smile and an outstretched hand�-nothing more. She could wait well enough.