"Then you saw me model that figure?"
"And the cliff fell," Beth put in irrelevantly to cover a blush. "It often falls. We're always having landslips here. And I think we'd better move away from it now," she added, rising. "People are killed sometimes."
"But tell me," he said, detaining her. "Didn't you know I was following you?"
Beth became embarrassed.
"You did," he persisted, "and you ran away. Why did you run away?"
"I couldn't help it," Beth confessed; then she uttered an exclamation. "Look! look! the tide! What shall we do?"
He turned and saw their danger for the first time.
"Our only way of escape is by the cliffs," Beth said, "unless a boat comes by."
"And the cliffs are perpendicular just here," he rejoined, after carefully surveying them.
They looked into each other's faces blankly.