"I shall now have a double value for it, Miss Ravensworth, since you have worn it." "Oh, don't say so," exclaimed Ellen. "Well, I hope we may have the pleasure of seeing you at the Towers some day. Do you know, Miss Ravensworth, I dreamed about you last night!" "What nonsense you do talk, Wentworth," said Lady Florence. "No nonsense; it is true." "What did you dream, Lord Wentworth?" said Ellen, regaining her courage. "Oh, do tell me." "No, you would be so angry." "Oh, I wouldn't, do tell me." "Very well, you have promised. I dreamed then--but mercy on us, where are we going to?" This exclamation was caused by a sudden swerve, and then as sudden a descent of the sleigh downwards at an angle of 45 deg.. Frank had driven on steadily enough till he came to the Queen's Drive,[C] a fine road surrounding Arthur's Seat. Just as the sleigh was gliding along above the Loch of Duddingston, feeling cold, he had given the reins to Johnny for a moment, while he lighted a cigar and took a pull at the brandy flask; but no sooner did the spirited horses perceive another, and weaker, hand guided them, than they left the road, and swinging round plunged down the steep decline towards the Loch. "God save us!" cried Frank as he seized the reins from the terrified boy, "where _are_ you going?" He then by a masterpiece of driving managed to guide the impetuous horses down without overthrowing the sleigh, and adroitly brought them round just as they seemed to be about plunging into the thinly frozen-over lake; he then brought them up with a sharp turn, and as he viewed their tracks down the hill now that danger was over, burst into a fit of laughter as his brother put out his head from the inside, and sternly demanded from Frank the meaning of such an ill-timed practical joke. As soon as Frank could speak, he told the whole occurrence, which in its turn made the occupants of the inside laugh too, though the ladies but a few minutes before were screaming in terror; at least two of them, for Lady Edith was as self-possessed as any of her brothers. Frank promised not to trust Johnny again, and they then proceeded homewards, dropping Ellen and her brother at their home, and getting in return the far-famed cloak. They found the Captain and Arranmore already at the Towers, and the former told in great glee how they had twice come to grief--nearly overturned the mail coach, and quite overthrown a cart full of apples.