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Her appreciations
marched before her achievement, and when it came to climbing it
seemed foolish to toil to summits over which her spirit had flitted
days before. Their Swiss expeditions which she had foreseen as
glorious wanderings amidst the blue ice of crevasses and nights of
exalted hardihood became a walking tour of fitful vigour and
abundant fun and delight. They spent a long day on the ice of the
Aletsch glacier, but they reached the inn on its eastward side with
magnificent appetites a little late for dinner.
Amanda had revealed an unexpected gift for nicknames and pretty
fancies. She named herself the Leopard, the spotless Leopard; in
some obscure way she intimated that the colour was black, but that
was never to be admitted openly, there was supposed to be some
lurking traces of a rusty brown but the word was spotless and the
implication white, a dazzling white, she would play a thousand
variations on the theme; in moments of despondency she was only a
black cat, a common lean black cat, and sacks and half-bricks almost
too good for her.


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