“To give myself up. You need not be alarmed; I will clear you.”

There was not a shake in her voice, and she spoke without looking back.

“Stop!” Gavin called, but she would not, until his hand touched her shoulder.

“What do you want?” she asked.

“Why—” whispered Gavin, giddily, “why—why do you not hide in the manse garden?—No one will look for you there.”

There were genuine tears in the gypsy’s eyes now.

“You are a good man,” she said; “I like you.”

“Don’t say that,” Gavin cried in horror. “There is a summer-seat in the garden.”