I forgot it when I spoke to you before.

I do not believe, really, it is more than three miles beyond the other little place where you thought of stopping." Then she walked away from the wall and I mounted.

I moved very slowly onward, and as I turned my head I saw that a row of straggling bushes which grew close to the wall were now between her and me.

But I also saw, or thought I saw, between the leaves and boughs, that her face was towards me, and that she was waving her handkerchief.

If I had been sure of that, I think I should have jumped over the wall, pushed through the bushes, and should have asked her to give me that handkerchief, that I might fasten it on the front of my cap as, in olden days, a knight going forth to his adventures bound upon his helmet the glove of his lady-love.
But I was not sure of it, and, seized by a sudden energetic excitement, I started off at a tremendous rate of speed.