The next Day: Earlier Lucy and I sat here a while, and it was all so beautiful before us that we took hands as we sat, and she told me all over again about Arthur and their coming marriage. That made me just a little heart-sick, for I haven't heard from Jonathan for a whole month.

Now I have come up here alone, for I am very sad. There was no letter for me. I hope there cannot be anything the matter with Jonathan. The clock has just struck nine. I see the lights scattered all over the town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and sometimes singly. They run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley. To my left the view is cut off by the black line of the roof of the old house next to the abbey. The sheep and lambs are bleating in the fields away behind me, and there is a clatter of donkeys' hoofs up the paved road below.

The band on the pier is playing a waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street. Neither of the bands hears the other, but up here I see and hear them both. I wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.

Vocabulary:

Took hands: Held each other's hand
Heart-sick: Emotional
Bleat: The 'baaa' noise made by sheep
Clatter: A hard repeared noise with no rhythm
Waltz: Dance music
Salvation Army: A religious and social organization
Back street: A small street away from a main road