Excerpt from The Whistling Maid: A Romance

The cool shade of the early May morning still lay about the old house in Rhos as Luned passed through the courtyard, a slender figure in a green kirtle. She had a boy's leather cap set lightly upon her head, which, as if she had not had time to attend fully to it before, she now pressed closer on her locks of yellow-brown hair. Round her neck was a narrow ribbon, from which hung a silver whistle. In one hand she had a twisted thong, in the other a hazel switch; and her kirtle was closely girdled with an old leathern belt When she neared the wicket in the high wall at the foot of the yard, her step quickened itself to a run in her eagerness.

As the quiet yard and empty stables showed, the men were away with their master; but she was afraid of being called back by one of the maids.

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