They had lost their way!
"Wait!" I shouted, plunging pell-mell through the bushes. "Wait where you are! I'm coming!"
And so, hallooing all the way, while Robin answered, I made my way to them—and found them resting on a wall.
"Hello," I said.
"Hello," said Robin. "We aren't mountain-goats, you know, Bertram."
I grinned gleefully.
"I thought my legs were so short?" I said.
"And so they are," he replied, calmly, "but you go a bit too fast, my lad—for Letty."
I had forgotten Letitia! Revenging myself on Robin, it was she alone who had suffered, and my heart smote me as I saw how pale she was, and weary, sitting beside him on the wall. Yet she did not chide me; she said nothing, but sat there resting, with her eyes upon the wild-flower which she plucked to pieces in her hand.