Only a month had elapsed since that never-to-be-forgotten
moonlight walk with Winifred. But what a world of emotion since then!
VIII
I walked along the cliff to the gangway behind Flinty Point, and
descended in order to see what havoc the landslip had made with the
graves.
I looked across the same moonlit sands where I had seen Winifred so
short a time before, when I had a father. To my delight and surprise,
there she was again. There was Winifred, walking thoughtfully towards
Church Cove with Snap by her side, who seemed equally thoughtful and
sedate. The relief of finding that my fears about her father were
groundless added to my joy at seeing her. With my own dead father
lying within a few roods of me, I ran towards her in a state of high
exhilaration, forgetting everything but her. With sympathetic looks
for my bereavement she met me, and we walked hand-in-hand in silence.
After a little while she said: 'My father told me he was very busy
to-night, and wished me to come on the sands for a walk, but I little
hoped to meet you; I am very pleased we have met, for to-morrow I am
going to London.
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