The greater the risk, the more eager was she to take it.

She would show Ramon that she, too, could ride.
"Oh, do be careful, Annie!" Jean called anxiously when she was riding into the mouth of the draw.

"Turn to the right, when you come to that big flat rock, and don't come down where I did.

It's too steep.

Really," she drawled to Rosemary and Lite, "my heart was in my mouth when I came straight down by that rock.