"You!" he exclaimed.

"_You_--camping out here!" With a quick little movement she came to him, still laughing with her eyes and lips, and for an instant he held both her hands tight in his own.

Her lovely face was dangerously near to him.

He felt the touch of her breath on his face, for an instant caught the sweet scent of her hair.

Never had he seen eyes like those that glowed up at him softly, filled with the gentle starlight; never in his life had he dreamed of a face like this, so near to him that it sent the blood leaping through his veins in strange excitement.