"I do not think anything would induce him to trust either of us on one
of those narrow mule-paths."

"But everybody goes up Montanvert as a matter of course. The bridle-way
is perfectly safe."

"Uncle Denham once witnessed a painful accident on the Wetterhorn--
indeed, he himself barely escaped death; and any suggestion of mountain
climbing that cannot be done on wheels always meets a negative from him.
I suspect my aunt will not strongly favor the proposal, but when I make
it I shall depend on you to sustain me."

"I shall surely do so, Miss Denham. I have had this same excursion in my
mind all along."

"I was wondering how I should get the chance to ask the favor of you,
when that special Providence, which your friend Mr. Flemming pretends
not to believe in, managed it for me."

"It wasn't I, then, but Providence, that invited you to walk?"

"It looks like it, Mr. Lynde."

"But at first you were disposed to reject the providential aid."

"I hesitated about leaving aunt Gertrude alone."

"If you had refused me, there would have been no end to my
disappointment. This walk, though it is sixty or seventy miles too