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As soon as she got up in the morning she would take a book and read it on the terrace, sitting far back in a lounge chair so that her feet hardly touched the ground, or she would hide herself with her book in the lime-walk, or she would go through the gate into the field.
The early winter twilight was closing in, and the intricate tracery of the leafless branches that overarched the lonely pathway looked black against the cold gray of the evening sky. The lime-walk seemed like some cloister in this uncertain light. "Why do you bring me to this horrible place to frighten me out of my poor wits?" cried my lady, peevishly. "You ought to know how nervous I am."
Hastily putting on a large Rubens hat, and twisting a soft piece of black lace round her neck, she runs down-stairs and, taking a different direction from that she knows Dora most likely pursued, she arrives by a side path at the lime-walk almost as soon as her cousin. Afraid to venture too near, she obtains a view of the walk from a high position framed in by rhododendrons.
When they regained the inn, Geoffrey had not even such a butterfly kiss to remember as she had once given him in the lime-walk at Beechmark; and Lucy, trying in her eager affection to solve the puzzle they presented her with, had simply to give it up. The day grew wilder.
I went out into the hall, and, without a thought in my head, stood and looked out at the pond and the village, and still I heard: "A piece of cheese.... To the crow somewhere God sent a piece of cheese." And I left the house by the way I had come the first time, only reversing the order, from the yard into the garden, past the house, then along the lime-walk.
Thirty feet below the ground level there is said to have been a hiding-place a large cavity cut in the solid rock. Many years ago a skeleton of a man was found at the bottom. Such dramatic material should suggest to some sensational novelist a tragic story, as the well and lime-walk at Ingatestone is said to have suggested Lady Audley's Secret.
"You will tell Miss Delmaine," replies Adrian quickly, "that I never wrote you a letter, and that I certainly did not you will forgive my even mentioning this extraordinary supposition, I hope, Mrs. Talbot kiss your hand one day in September in the lime-walk." Dora turns first hot and then cold, first crimson and then deadly pale. So it is all out now, and she is on her trial.
"There is Helen in the lime-walk," said Mrs. Collingwood to her husband, as she looked out of the window. The slight figure of a young person in deep mourning appeared between the trees, "How slowly she walks! She looks very unhappy!" "Yes," said Mr.
Lifting it, she sees it is the letter written by him to Dora, which the latter had brought to her, here to this very room, when asking her advice as to whether she should or should not meet him by appointment in the lime-walk.
The servant who answered his summons told him that Sir Michael was out, and my lady walking in the lime-tree avenue. It was full an hour and a half after this when Lady Audley returned to the house, not coming from the lime-walk, but from exactly the opposite direction, carrying her open book in her hand, and singing as she came.
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