After all, however, it was really not his business.

He had allowed himself to be persuaded to help Hayes and the latter's accomplice, Bell, without quite understanding what this implied.

Her plan would prevent his doing an injustice he did not really mean to do.
She suspected that there was a touch of sophistry about her arguments, but would not own that she had come because she wanted to meet Kit.

It was necessary that she should meet him; yet when she stopped at a gate and heard the tramp of horses' feet behind, her color came and went.

For all that, she looked very calm, when Kit pulled up his team, and went forward to open the gate.