I hurried up to her, and just began to ask where I was, when she interrupted me with a question of the same kind.

By-the-way, I forgot to say that she was on horseback.

The poor devil of a horse seemed to have had a deuced hard time of it too, for he was trembling from head to foot, though whether that arose from fatigue or fright I don't know.

Perhaps it was both.
"Well, the girl was evidently very much alarmed.

She was awfully pale; she was a monstrous pretty girl too--the prettiest by all odds I ever saw, and that's saying a good deal.