By the time the dancers have tired their heels you and I will be on our vessel , able to snap our fingers at fate . ' '' ` And what if I do not meet you in the fir grove ? ' said Ursula , a little impertinently . '' ` If you do not , I 'll sail for South America the next morning , and many a long year will pass ere Kenneth MacNair comes home again . ' `` Perhaps Kenneth did n't mean that , but Ursula thought he did , and it decided her . She agreed to run away with him . Yes , of course that was wrong , too , Felicity . She ought to have said , ` No , I shall be married respectably from home , and have a wedding and a silk dress and bridesmaids and lots of presents . ' But she did n't . She was n't as prudent as Felicity King would have been . '' `` She was a shameless hussy , '' said Felicity , venting on the long-dead Ursula that anger she dare not visit on the Story Girl . `` Oh , no , Felicity dear , she was just a lass of spirit . I 'd have done the same . And when Friday night came she began to dress for the dance with a brave heart . She was to go to The Springs with her uncle and aunt , who were coming on horseback that afternoon , and would then go on to The Springs in old Hugh 's carriage , which was the only one in Carlyle then . They were to leave in time to reach The Springs before nightfall , for the October nights were dark and the wooded roads rough for travelling . `` When Ursula was ready she looked at herself in the glass with a good deal of satisfaction . Yes , Felicity , she was a vain baggage , that same Ursula , but that kind did n't all die out a hundred years ago . And she had good reason for being vain . She wore the sea-green silk which had been brought out from England a year before and worn but once -- at the Christmas ball at Government House .
A fine , stiff , rustling silk it was , and over it shone Ursula 's crimson cheeks and gleaming eyes , and masses XXXXX nut brown hair .
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