"You're right," she said quietly then.

"I'm always making a fool of myself, just on the impulse of the moment.

The girls will be worried about me, as it is.

But I don't want you to ride any farther, Mr.Green.What I came to say need not take very long, and I think I can find my way home alone, all right." "I'll take you home when you're ready to go," said Andy quietly.

All at once he had wanted to shield her, to protect her from even so slight an unconventionality as making his coffee for him.