Dawn

Chapter 43

A week or so after the departure of Lord Minster, Mildred suggested

that they should, on the following day, vary their amusements by going

up to the Convent, a building perched on the hills some thousand feet

above the town of Funchal, in palanquins, or rather hammocks swung

upon long poles. Arthur, who had never yet travelled in these

luxurious conveyances, jumped at the idea, and even Miss Terry, when

she discovered that she was to be carried, made no objection. The

party was completed by the addition of a newly-married couple of whom

Mrs. Carr had known something at home, and who had come to Madeira to

spend the honeymoon. Lady Florence also had been asked, but, rather to

Arthur's disappointment, she could not come.

When the long line of swinging hammocks, each with its two s