And she sat at the table and leaned her head in her arms and prayed that Toban might overtake him before he reached the Arrow.

For she did not want him to come back to her with the stain of their blood on his hands.
She was startled while sitting at the table, for she heard a sound from the sitting-room, and she got up to investigate.

But it was only Bob, who, hearing the sounds made by Toban and herself, had come to investigate.

She urged him to return to his room and to bed, and kissed him when he started up the stairs, so warmly that he looked at her in surprise.
She returned to the kitchen, sitting at the table and watching the clock.

A half hour had elapsed since Toban's departure when she heard the faint beat of hoofs in the distance, and with wildly beating heart got up and went out on the porch.
For a moment she could not determine the direction from which the sounds came, but presently she saw a rider approaching from the direction of the river, and she stepped down from the porch and advanced to meet him.