"I scarcely expected you." He looked at her reproachfully.
"Not expect me! But why ?" "I thought you might change your mind," she said.
He checked a quick response, and said instead: "And now, where do we go first?
You see I have got a bit heavier horse.
He's a present, also, from my father.

What do you think of him ?" She eyed him gravely and critically.
"He's nice-looking," she said, "but I don't like him so well as the one you rode yesterday.

Didn't I see him slip just now, coming up the hill ?" "Did he ?" said Stafford.

"I didn't notice.

To tell you the truth, I was so delighted at seeing you that I don't think I should have noticed if he had tumbled on his nose." "Oh, it wasn't much of a slip," she said, quickly, to cover her slight confusion at his candid confession.