The things are not yet unpacked." Moccasins ?--She remembered when last she had moccasins on her feet--the day she rode the horse at the quick-set hedge, and nearly lost her life.

How very distant that all was, and yet how near too! Suddenly she remembered also why she took that mad ride, and her heart hardened a little.
"You have been kind to my father since I left ?" she asked.
He met her eyes steadily.

"No, not always; not more than I have been kind to you.

But at the last, yes." Suddenly his voice became intensely direct and honest.

"Lali," he continued, "there is much that I want to say to you." She waved her hand in a wearied fashion.