"I am afraid something very unexpected has happened, and so beg you will excuse me.

Good-morning." And passing through the gateway, he rapidly strode toward the house, while Lawrence prepared to turn his horse's head toward the Springs.
But, although Junius Keswick walked rapidly, Peggy, who had started first for the house, kept well in advance of him.

Away she went, skipping, running, dancing.

Once she stopped and turned, and saw that the buggy, with the mud-colored horse, was being driven away, and that Master Junius was coming along the road to the house.

Then she started off, and ran steadily, the rapid show of the light-colored soles of her feet behind her suggestive of a steamer's wake.