They had rushed to meet each other like two separated colts bred in the same meadow, but when they came together it was different.

Ralph put out his arms to embrace her, but she pushed him back and said, "No, not until we have spoken together." "This is a cold greeting," said Ralph, amazed and trembling, for he feared lest Suzanne should have changed her mind as to their marriage.
"What is it that you have to tell me?
Speak on, quickly." "Two things, Ralph," she answered, and taking the least of them first, she plunged straightway into a full account of the coming of the Englishmen, of all that had passed then, and of her quarrel with me upon the matter.
"And now, Ralph," she ended, "you will understand that you have been cheated of your birthright, and this I think it just that you should know, so that, if you will, you may change your mind about staying here, for there is yet time, and follow these Englishmen to wherever it is they have gone, to claim from them your heritage." Ralph laughed and answered, "Why, Sweet, I thought that we had settled all this long ago.

That your mother did not tell the men quite the truth is possible, but if she played with it, it was for the sake of all of us and with my leave.

Let them go and the fortune with them, for even if I could come to England and find it there, I should be but as a wild buck in a sheep kraal, out of place and unhappy.

Moreover, we should be separated, dear, for even if you would all consent, I could never take you from your own people and the land where you were born.