“Do I look decrepit?” She laughed, walking on light feet. Spring was everywhere, in the soft air, and the throats of courting birds, in the breeze and both their hearts. They went down to the sea and he arranged the cushions against that very rock behind which I had once sat and heard them talk. She said now she must face the sea, the winds that blew from it.
“Not too cold?” he asked her.
“Not too anything. You may sit on the rug too, there is a bit to spare for you. What book have you in your pocket?”
“No book today. I carried Anne’s prayer-book.”
“‘Science and Health’?”
She was full of merriment and laughter.
“No; the ordinary Church Service. There was nothing else available.”
“Oh, yes, there was. I sent for a copy of Mrs. Eddy’s lucubrations.”
“No!”
“Of course I did. I had to make myself acquainted with a subject on which I should be compelled to talk.”