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1 T \v A s A cold clear morning with a sprinkling of snow on the tops. In the hanging valley below the ridge Miss Pink was startled to realise that the depression which she had thought empty was full of figures approaching purposefully through the boulders. 'Quite sinister,' she commented. 'You could take them for guerillas in a war film.' 'It's the silence.,' Ted Roberts pointed out. 'They've been trained not to chat when they're going uphill. Nell doesn't have much time for superfluities.' 'We always talked nineteen to the dozen when we were young,' Sir Thomas recalled nostalgically. 'The present generation takes its pleasures seriously.' The fourth director of Plas Mawr Adventure Centre was the youngest, but John Beresford had grown daughters and, on the question of youth, held himself superior to his childless colleagues |