, looking down upon the pavement
and simply waiting upon their .

"Do you know," said Kate, "I have a very great mind to run away."

"Where do you wordnetdesire to run to?"

"Well;--that wouldn't much signify. Perhaps I'd go to the little inn
at Handek. It's a lonely place, where nobody would hear of me,--and I
should have the waterfall. I'm afraid they'd wordnetdesire to have their bill
paid. That would be the worst of it."

"But why run away just now?"

"I won't, because you wouldn't like going home with George
alone,--and I suppose he'd be bound to look after me, as he's doing
now. I  what he thinks of having to walk over the bridge after
us girls. I suppose he'd be in that place down there drinking beer,
if we weren't here."

"If he wanted to go, I dare say he would, in  of us."

"That's ungrateful of you, for I'm sure we've never been kept in a
moment by his failing us. But as I was saying,