There was a pause in the conversation, during which the carriage had passed St. Teath and St. Kew, with their quaint churches, and that of Egloshayle, on the right bank of the Camel, where it peeped up among the trees, when Rose returned to the charge.
"And you actually swung together at the end of a rope."
"At the end of a rope, as you say."
"How romantic!—how charming!"
"At least in one sense; yet I was glad enough when it was all over in safety."
"What! though doubtless, as Byron says,
'The situation had its charm.'"
"Fie, Rose—you quote Don Juan!" exclaimed Mabel.
"And why should not I, Mab, if the passage seems so familiar to you?"
"Rose, you are incorrigible!"