This man, who had come so unexpectedly out of the mists the night before, was unlike anyone the young woman had ever known.

Like Jed Holland, she felt somehow as if he were a superior being.

The Matthews family were different in many ways from those born and raised in the hills.

And Sammy's father, too, was different.

But this stranger--it was quite as though he belonged to another world.
Coming to the big, low gap, the girl looked far away to the blue line of hills, miles, and miles away.