here before can run along by yourselves, but I mean to enjoy
it leisurely. I am safe by myself here, am I not?" she asked.

"As safe as though you were in the Metropolitan Museum," said
Carlton, as he and Mrs. Downs followed Miss Morris along the
side of the hill towards the ruined theatre of Herodes, and
stood at its top, looking down into the basin below. From
their feet ran a great semicircle of marble seats, descending
tier below tier to a marble pavement, and facing a great
ruined wall of pillars and arches which in the past had formed
the background for the actors. From the height on which they
stood above the city they could see the green country
stretching out for miles on every side and swimming in the
warm sunlight, the dark groves of myrtle on the hills, the
silver ribbon of the inland water, and the dark blue AEgean
Sea. The bleating of sheep and the tinkling of the bells came
up to them from the pastures below, and they imagined they
could hear the shepherds piping to their flocks from one
little hill-top to another.

"The country is not much changed," said Carlton, "And when you
stand where we are now, you can imagine that you see the
procession winding its way over the road to the Eleusinian
Mysteries, with the gilded chariots, and the children carrying
garlands, and the priestesses leading the bulls for the sacrifice."

"What can we imagine is going on here?" said Miss Morris,
pointing with her parasol to the theatre below.

"Oh, this is much later," said Carlton. "This was built by