She felt herself getting into a corner. But, being pushed forward by his subordinate officer, he was compelled to make a stand. She did not open the Bible but laid it on the edge of the bed, knelt and rested her forehead upon the worn leather cover. She remained on guard. I will make her my Grail, and some day, perhaps, if God wills, she shall become my wife!’” He looked very hard before him as he said this, and his voice was full of deep feeling. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. She had asked about that already, and her father had replied, evasively: “We’ll have to see about that, little Vee; we’ll have to see about that. It saved me the bother of being studied. Every now and then she fingered an ornament, moved a piece of furniture, or rearranged some draperies.
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