"Good Heavens, let us get a boat at once!"
"There is not one to be had—the pilchard fishers hereabout are all at sea!"
"Lower someone over the cliffs by a rope; I have gone myself, thus, for a chough's egg, more than once."
"The rocks are nearly two hundred feet in height in some places, and the poor girl——"
"Is she a lady, General?"
"Yes, and a handsome one, too."
"You know her then—she is not a stranger?"
"To me only—a Miss Devereaux, who resides at Porthellick."
"Who do you say?" shouted Audley; "Sybil Devereaux?"
"The same."