se and down towards the fifth tee.

"Oh, I told you I adored you, didn't I?" I said suddenly.

"I don't think so."

"Surely I did. Perhaps you were asleep."

"Asleep!" she said scornfully. "I was awake all the time. I nearly
died when you began to read."

I stopped short and looked at her. "You are a deceitful witch." I said.

"A what witch?"

"The which to adore," said I.

After the fourth hole the course lies inland. For the next ten holes
you play directly away from the sea. Then the fifteenth takes a sharp
turn to the left, skirting the deer-park of Mote Abbey, while the
sixteenth bears to the left again, heading straight for the club-house
and the coast once more.

My lady was a pretty player. I gave her two strokes a hole and led
till the fourteenth, but on that green she holed a ten-foot putt which
made us all square.

If she hadn't sliced her drive from the fifteenth tee, it would have
been a beautiful shot. We watched it curl over the grey wall into the
sunshot park.

"Out of bounds, I suppose," said I. "What a pity, pretty Princess."

"Not at all," she replied. "It was a lovely shot. You can't do better
than follow that line."

"Into the deer-park?"

"Why not? It's much prettier."

"I'm sure it is," said I.

"But what of that? Unless somebody's moved it since this morning, the
green's about a hundred and twenty yards away from the wall on this
side. To say nothing of the fact that the park's private property,
while there's a notice-board about three feet square, beginning
'Golfers are requested to remember,' at the one place where a giant
might effect an entrance."

"Yes," she said quietly, "I got brother to put that board there. We
tried to make it polite. The caddies used to frighten the deer so."

I just stood and looked at her. The three smiles blazed back at me.
In silence I turned and teed up. Then I drove after her ball into the
fair park.

When we reached the place where the board was posted, she touched my
hand and pointed to her little brown shoe. For an instant she rested
on my palm. The next moment she was on the top of the wall. She
smiled her thanks before disappearing. I followed with the clubs.
There was a ladder on the other side. She was awaiting my descent. In
silence we walked forward together. Presently I touched her arm and
stood still. She turned and looked at me, the sun making all manner of
exquisite lights in her glorious hair.

"