Out of her sphere - University Library

OUT OF HER SniEllE.
a groom with him—but then I must have
lieard the horses."
The step was ascending the stairs ;
a slow
heavy one—not at all the step of a man
hurrying to keep an appointment upon
which much of the happiness of his future
life depends. " I do n t believe it is Aud-
ley," she said ;
" it's too bad of him to keep
me like this, and expose me to the chance
of being stared at by any one who may
chance to come.''
She looked out of the loophole ;
she was
sure it was not Audley, whose step was
coming every second nearer. She would
not be seen sitting there as if she expected
to meet some one, but rather as if she had
ascended on account of the view ; she kept
her face obstinately turned away ; she was
sure the steps that were now commg nearer
and nearer to her, were not Audley's ;
some
visitor to Wearmouth, most probably, who
thought the Fort one of the local lions ;
he