"Then there is one madcap the less in this world."
"For what have you done this?"
"A prank."
"A prank! Yes; but to replace the steps takes time and pains."
"I shall expend neither on them."
"It will give trouble to others."
"If it amuses me, what care I?"
The young man looked at the strange girl with perplexity.
"If every peg of wood were away," said she, "I could yet descend."
"How? Are you a bird—can you fly? Not a cat, not a squirrel could run up or down this rock."