Not many such days would be his, and he meant to take all it gave regardless of cost.

His sister's proposal to call at the Gwynnes' house he would have rejected could he have found a reasonable excuse.

The invitation to the Gwynne girls to accompany them on their shoot he resented also, and still more deeply he resented the arrangement of the party that set Kathleen next to him, a close fit in the back seat of the car.

But at the first feeling of her warm soft body wedged closely against him, all emotions fled except one of pulsating joy.

And this, with the air rushing at them from the western mountains, wrought in him the reckless resolve to take what the gods offered no matter what might follow.