He had meant to leave and take Jack with him, because it hurt him mightily to see those two falling in love with each other.

The trouble his staying might bring to Don Andres was nothing more nor less than a subterfuge.
If Teresita's smiles had continued to be given to him as they had been before Jack came, he told himself bitterly, he would never have thought of going.

And Jack thought he hesitated from pure unselfishness! The fingers that groped mechanically for his tobacco, though he had no intention of smoking just then, trembled noticeably.
"All right," he said quietly.

"I'll stay, then." And a moment after: "Go ask her if she wants to ride Surry.

I promised her she could, next time she rode.".