All went by, riding into line some paces distant; and again they laughed as they bent forward to the lady, shouting.
"Odd, to have out the horses on a day like this," Robert thought, and resumed his musing as before.

The lady's track now led him homeward, for he had no will of his own.

Rounding the lane, he was surprised to see Mrs.Boulby by the hedge.

She bobbed like a beggar woman, with a rueful face.
"My dear," she said, in apology for her presence, "I shouldn't ha' interfered, if there was fair play.

I'm Englishwoman enough for that.
I'd have stood by, as if you was a stranger.