Of that you may be very sure.

And it would be a good thing if you were seen to ride through the city quite unconcerned." Violet Oliver drew back from the ordeal which Ralston so calmly proposed to her.
"I shall be with you," he said.

"There will be no danger--or at all events no danger that Englishwomen are unprepared to face in this country." The appeal to her courage served Ralston's turn.

Violet raised her head with a little jerk of pride.
"Certainly I will ride with you this afternoon through Peshawur," she said; and she went out of the room and left Ralston alone.
He sat at his desk trying to puzzle out the enigma of the night.

The more he thought upon it, the further he seemed from any solution.