I had stopped them in such a way as to keep us as dry as possible, and tried to cheer the girl up by saying that this wasn't bad, and that it would soon be over.

In half an hour the rain ceased, and in an hour the sun was shining again, and across the eastern heavens there was displayed a beautiful double rainbow, and a faint trace of a third.
"That means hope," I said.
She looked at the wonderful rainbow and smiled a little half-smile.
"It doesn't mean hope," said she, "unless you can think out some way of throwing that man off our track." "Oh," I answered, with the brag that a man likes to use when a helpless woman throws herself on his resources, "I'll find some way if I make up my mind I don't want to fight them." "You mustn't think of that," said she.

"You are too smart to be so foolish.

See how well you answered the questions of that man and woman." "And I didn't lie, either," said I, after getting under way again.
"Wouldn't you lie," said she, "for me ?" It was, I suppose, only a little womanly probe into character; but it thrilled me in a way the poor girl could not have supposed possible.
"I would do anything for you," said I boldly; "but I'd a lot rather fight than lie." 3 The cloud-burst had flooded the swales, and across the hollows ran broad sheets of racing water.

I had crossed two or three of these, wondering whether I should be able to ford the next real watercourse, when we came to a broad bottom down the middle of which ran a swift shallow stream which rose over the young grass.