All the years rolled away.

I remembered the Sussex Downs and--and--days when we rode there high up above the weald.

Do you remember ?" "Yes." "How long was that ago ?" "Eight years." Stella laughed wistfully.
"To me it seems a century." She was silent for a moment, and though he spoke to her urgently she did not answer.

She was carried back to the high broad hills of grass with the curious clumps of big beech-trees upon their crests.
"Do you remember Halnaker Gallop ?" she asked with a laugh.

"We found it when the chains weren't up and had the whole two miles free.