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Rh the courage you had as a child. I have a plan. You have heard me tell of the cave where Minora and her brother were concealed: it is a good hiding-place yet. Meet me in an hour by the three ilexes in the wood, and I will answer for your security." "But my nurse and Pedro" "Do not, like you, incur danger. Don Henriquez would confide in his daughter, but not in servants whose characters for gossip the whole neighbourhood can swear to—leave them in ignorance: a secret brings its own risk, and their safety is insured by their anxiety. An hour hence at the three ilexes." Alvarez went off without waiting for an answer. It is the luxury of parting, to wander round places haunted by our childish steps and hallowed by our childish thoughts, and to loiter beneath the old trees where we have not always stood alone. But this was no luxury for Beatrice. She caught a handful of late rose-leaves, and hid them in the folds of her dress—she turned one last look on the fountain—she could not have looked again for the world. On returning to the house, her nurse asking her the simple question of what she was to do with the pomegranates, smote on her heart